Not everybody needs a thousand units and 10M a year in income so the need to leverage everything as hard as possible to reinvest is simply not there and would not make sense.Again, I'm not saying your wrong, I'm just saying maybe lay off the absolute statements and derogatory remarks towards those that don't agree with your approach.

For example, when the jobs go down or layoff in SF in 2008, slight dip in prices but not much compared to say Las Vegas.Terry

Reminds me of the 80/20 interest only days (why was that ever considered responsible) It's because the layoffs of all the folks that have just been doing "refi to drop FHA PMI!"

Plymouth did have a major lay off in 2016 and are "restructuring".

I had not considered borrowing from my TSP for a down payment - thank you for posting your question - it just gave me an option I didn't even realize I had.Just for that, I'll see if I can get the Navy guys to layoff a bit at the next football game! 

I’m looking to open an online account with vanguard, TD Ameritrade, E*Trade, or maybe even the Robinhood ap with my checkbook sdira to buy REITS.

I use Robinhood so I get commission free trading and I only invest in dividend paying companies who are well leveraged and not drowning in debt.

The only life insurance he had was through the company and 6 months after the layoff gets cancer and dies.

I live in Wyoming and we were impacted by the energy field layoffs of 2015.

I keep all my savings in my own personally managed portfolio on robinhood. investing in real estate investment trusts, I usually bring in 2-3% per month in growth not counting my average of 5-8% dividends.