You are not somehow magically immune to market forces.

And to be fair i think it works in the low value asset world as these properties basically were trading at the values of automobiles..

It's something to watch 3...6 months from now, no one is immune to this (excuse the pun).I don't expect everything to be business as usual even when the death rate slows, there will have to be cutbacks by corporations and professionals to compensate for the losses.

the opportunities will be in investor properties  with severely under capitalized landlords and commercial/retail some office those cannot be immune from this..

Plus rent is not a guaranteed income stream as Erik pointed out people think so but during the GFC many folks with max leverage had vacancies and lost their portfolios I know people think rentals are immune but they are not. true financial freedom Is ZERO debt rentals in the rental concepts.

In addition, automobiles were becoming commonplace for the wealthy and middle class allowing cross country travel.

This is pretty fascinating to me to hear Lethbridge is immune to the cyclical nature of oil and gas.

And so they decided, for example:- off-the-shelf software is going to last 3 years- computers, automobiles and appliances are going to last 5 years- construction equipment and office furniture is going to last 7 years- parking lots and fences are going to last 15 years- residential building, both houses and apartments, are going to last 27.5 years- commercial building are going to last 39 yearsDon't try to make sense out of these weird decisions.

Neither is immune or necessarily better in an upturn or downturn.The advantage to larger homes besides what is mentioned above is that there are less of them. 

My SS investment is performing well during the current recession, but it's certainly not immune from economic conditions in principle.Can it be a great investment?