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?

I wonder what it looks like if a city economy collapses. 

I don't see it collapsing the market unless people start moving away after all our young population will continue to increase from a greater birth to death ratio.5) Condo conversions - technically a conversion would be an apartment building converted to condos and being sold off.

@Allen Chaney - the comps in the area is strange because newer homes like mine are mixed with homes built before the market collapse.

I don't think we will see a repeat of the 2008 to 2011 collapse anytime soon, but it is very risky to think there will be ongoing appreciation.  

The bill would remove the power through which the federal government can label a bank "too big to fail," and disassemble it before it collapses and triggers another crisis.

@Mike Hemmer Your attorney sounds like the home inspectors that see a 4" long hairline crack on the basement wall of a 100 year old building and urge you to call a structural engineer because the building could be ready to collapse.