I also feel it is an emerging market and Florida in general has emerged from the crisis and will continue to add jobs and population, two drivers of real estateThanks for the infoGino

What we have seen in 2007-2009 financial crisis was a extremely rare situation where both the real estate and stock market crashed together.

I've seen it far too often throughout the financial crisis, reviewing loans/borrowers on bank's books..

Excerpt from:"America's mortgage-insurance giants are making bigger profits than before the crisis"From this month's Economist:  "The fact remains that both Fannie and Freddie have emerged from the financial crisis churning out more profits before tax than they ever have before (see chart).

Maybe they've been expecting this crisis for a long time.

With all of the crisis going on in our country, I still feel good.

He said one way to come thru this crisis is to inflate m1 and m2.

As you read this, try and grasp the magnitude that this is what the President's current adviser on Science and Technology thinks.From page 837 of John Holdren's coauthored book Ecoscience"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."

This worked back in the 80's with the S&L crisis, so it should work now.

However, the firms had drawn scrutiny long before the crisis because lawmakers believed their implicit government backing gave them a competitive edge in the mortgage market.