Historical PricesSource: https://www.financialsamurai.com/are-you-a-real-mi...We had the dot-com bubble in the late 90's, followed by the housing crisis (collapse) of 2008, and in my opinion the dollar is the next bubble, see Forbes article below:https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/01/26/...Additionally, if you do agree that there is a much higher inflation rate than the Fed reports, stashing cash and earning interest below 8% is a LOSING proposition.

I want to add access to the basement (it was closed off due to the stairs collapsing a number of years ago), to give tenants storage access and also to install washer and dryer units (these updates don't need to be done immediately, but I'm factoring them into the analysis). 

I did not intentionally avoid 2005 to 2008 expecting a collapse (I wish I was able to see that crash coming) but the 2004 purchase extended me far enough (we did not sell any RE for that purchase) that I basically could not comfortably purchase in 2005 to 2010 ($751K seemed like so much money in 2004). 

If the area hasn't recovered from the collapse (Value wise) by now, it probably never will!

If they take away the ability of outsiders/non-subscribers to look up listings for lease and sale, the product will collapse. 

United States would collapse

Afterwards he asked our opinion on how investor loans played a part of the 2008 financial collapse, and what are the risks of another collapse.

Recently, we discovered we have a collapsed pipe under the basement cement floor/slab.

The other side of the coin is I understand diversification could be a safer play should a collapse of the economy happen again.Thank you and look forward to your thoughts!

Who bails out the banks/Insurance companies if the Commercial Backed Mortgage Securities (CBMS) collapses in Value when the underlying asset looses value?