Warren Thank you for the tip, I guess you can not go wrong when food is involved.

No heavily processed foods, (chips/dip, fast food, cake, pie, ice cream, soda, white flour/sugar, canned/frozen foods,juices) I cheated alot over easter, and christmas, so it happens.

Now, gasoline costs twice what it did 10 years ago, food costs twice what it did 10 years ago, but, if REAL ESTATE costs twice what it did 10 years ago… we’re having a bubble, and all of the experts are going to come out and draw a bunch of dumb graphs to prove the point.

Of course, that depends on your definition of the income levels.There was a report out in the last couple of days that 28 million Americans are getting food stamps in 2008.

One expense I was wrong about was food expense.Since rental property is a business, I thought I could write off my food expense, for example, taking a lunch or dinner break from working on my rental property.

Just food for thought and discussion.Thanks

However, with the 10 homes example, if 1 home is vacant, my return is $900 for the month.Just food for thought.

That's a lot of food to consume!

Finally, I have a large stack of canned food and a swimming pool full of water in case of civil unrest/bird flu/other disaster.

gold, silver, cash, food and water to start.