But, he bought most of these houses many years ago and especially when the housing crisis was going on. 

I was in NC, when the Great Recession hit and the mortgage crisis bit everyone in the butt. 

Prior to the financial crisis, appreciation was all the rage and everyone assumed housing prices can never go down.  

That fell thru and then the housing crisis hit.

The housing crisis plus having my first child caused me to end my short-lived career as an agent.

I bought it before the housing crisis!

Although in these few years in the crisis, this has happened in extreme amounts and in a short time period over just a few years.

We’ve all seen some behemoth corporations go down in the past decade, from the retail giants like Circuit City all the way to firms like Bear Stearns in the financial crisis.

@William Franklin While only reading books published since the credit crisis might be good if you were looking for something like How To Make A Million Dollars Overnight With No Money Down Flipping Houses* when it comes to apartment building investment there are many time tested principles which apply in any age.

It's not hard to break into the fringe market around Coventry which is heating up quickly as the foreclosure crisis lets up.