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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shades who wrote (37578)	8/11/2005 11:55:06 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Tax advantages make real estate superior to stocks. Crooked CEOs and the like make stocks inferior to real estate.

To: shades who wrote (37578)	8/11/2005 11:59:48 AM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I think that is only true when you compare annual appreciation of stocks to real estate over that time. For the average Joe to buy RE when it is inexpensive, with great financing and low interest rates is the true no brainer. Cash flow, appreciation, paying down a mortgage and tax shelter over time has made your parents stars with probably an annual IRR well in excess of 25% over several decades. Unfortunately in our Florida market as well as all other bubble markets we are at the exact opposite end of the spectrum today.