OK Rich, my suggestion won't be a big surprise to you, but here is what I would do:Pick a part of the country that is growing quickly, and yes they exist, even in this depressed economy.

War zones will have depressed rent levels, and generally not a good quality of tenant.

Mental illness, bottom line definition seems to be when someone fails to conform to the expectations of society due to any personality or physical manifestation....while we try to label disorders that are similar.I don't know if evil is in all of us, to some degree, but there are certainly evil people.I think Jason has a point too, going further, evil may only exist if there is good.

According to the survivors of the Great Depression many years after the fact, they recived payouts of ten cents for each dollar on deposit.

I know you are interested in DuPage but good luck finding deals that you can flip, b/c the market is so depressed.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Most are depressed, in pain from disease or injury, or some other catastrophic situation that takes them OUT of their right state of mind.We can debate this, but the person who is dead, is dead, end of report.

A code the owner chooses is programed in, and there's 10 buttons, 3 or more of which should be depressed to open it.

USEFUL Hard assets and CASH - as always, these last longer than other "investments" in a true Depression.

More people died in the name of religion then from any combination of diseases, and it was in this realisation that globally in 2039, religion was officially declared an "infectuous mental disorder" and a cure was sought.2050====The Only treatment was determined to be isolation, so a dome was created over Australia and all religious zealots were relocated there and the dome was locked for what was to be 1000 years, at which time, the doors would be opened, and the world would find out who won.3050====The doors were never re-openned, no one cared ..Mankind was saved!