I am interested to see how far people are predicting residential real estate price valuations to drop during this crunch and period of great instability.

I see it as being massive personally. If you look at inflatio...

The most striking example of a massive accumulation is that of Andrew Carnegie (the richest man in recorded history) who started out in poverty:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_carnegie

The larger complexes always seem to have overflowing dumpsters, abandoned cars and MASSIVE keggers that need to be maintained by the police on a weekly basis.Steven, not being allowed to rent your home really takes the cake.

There are ominous signs that the government may not be able to hand over enough of our money because the losses incurred by these speculators are too massive.

Tyler,Welcome to the boards.Yes being around like minded people is massively important.

Obama raises it MASSIVELY for the wealthy.

There are ways to do this without massive lifestyle shifts.

interesting threadI retired 10 years ago from my day job, basically leveraging from my property investmentsIt look me 7 years but it was the fact that I jumped into booming markets that made a massive differenceMix this with some small development projects..... this is like investing on steroids, speeds the processI continue investing today and growing capital. 

Do the banks not fear massive foreclosures?

As I believe EDGE discusses on his blog, there has been a massive increase in the amount of loans defaulting beginning in 2006.