It is interesting to see here the wide spread of risk tolerance on display.I'm curious, for those of you who are more risk tolerant and invest with all you've got and "Come what may," how you handled the emergencies (if any) that came?

As an Investor, you want all the numbers to be "healthy" (and healthy can be a wide spread for some categories).

I'm in Wisconsin, and here we're trying to create a widespread green rental network.

Often considered a form of predatory lending, equity stripping became increasingly widespread in the early 2000s.

Another question I have is, how widespread is wholesaling?

You can try to get it grandfathered in, but since there is a widespread cracking problem pointing to some construction defect, that defect can't be fixed with your tile in place, and your tile didn't correct the underlying problem.

My wife and I live in and do business in Mexico, and have invested in Quintana Roo (Riviera Maya, the Mexican Caribbean), both in luxury and mid-low class residential properties, with great satisfaction.Unfortunately, the kind of experiences Adrian had are wide-spread all over Mexico.

Paid cash and keeping a large emergency fund to cover expenses, so we have very few worries about a wide-spread financial  problem.  

Robotic welding for example became widespread in the 1980's. 

The expectation is that most Trump policies will have a negative impact on the economy so the possibility is that you will be facing a wide spread opportunity to buy  at depressed prices.