The volatility (whether bearish or bullish) cannot be sustained, can it?

I suppose in the bond markets, the volatility is greater than the mortgage market since mortgages still have indexes as a baseline (for this reason).

Over and over again they are telling me that they enjoyed the gains of the past few years in the stock market but see it long term as volatile and want to cash out the gains and put into something with a more reliable income stream where they know what they are getting.

In more volatile markets we may go to an 80% or 75% BER to provide a 20 or 25% Margin of Safety.

RE argument, but there is a false assumption in your post that your real estate equity is 'less volatile'.

Lastly, I took back a few properties a few years back in my volatile markets that I was ok selling on the cheap because my health at the time didn't justify the energy to rehab and retail them to non-existent buyers.All lead to reasons why you can only establish a criteria as a buyer and try to stay within it.

I am planning to maximize and utilize this time to educate myself, understand the market trends in terms of incline/decline of housing volatility (mortgage perspective), job movements, and social/economic/political factor that influences in the RE market.

I've taken out 2 loans against it in the past few months strictly for RE investment.I won't stop contributing because my company match is essentially a 50% return now that I'm fully vested, but I have every intention of maxing out the loans every 6-12 months until I no longer need my employer's services (aka a paycheck).Regardless of whether you agree with this article or not, I think it's fair to say that the stock market has been insanely volatile over the past 3-4 years.

What's interesting to me is that's with today's uncertainty, market volatility, wealth inequality as well as multiple national revolutions

Actually lead paint can be very dangerous and cause serious health side effects.People just do not connect the dots that their sickness came from the lead paint.If you go through and read the EPA's site in depth on the data it is conclusive on the studies performed.Paint in general can have VOC's (volatile organic compounds) that can cause problems as well.You can buy and use no to little VOC paint and put that as a bullett point on your rehabs.Yes it costs some more but can be worth it.