Folks using 2008 as a mirror of what can /did happen is a mistake.Mainly because 2008 crash was from massive amount of bad mortgage loans/fraud that shook the foundations of huge wall street banks that had bad investments i.e. mortgage /insurance Derivatives on such loans around the world it spread like the flu of 1918 around the world.I just don’t see the real-estate getting slammed like that again the loans on the books mostly are solid loans.Still a great demand for homes here below 300k, builders not keeping up or not wanting to keep up?

I read where he grabs numbers of benchmarks returns to get his 12%The issue is it would have to be an index fund mirroring the benchmark.

If you give a mouse a cookie, he will soon ask for a glass of milk.Then he'll request a straw to drink the milk, and a mirror to help avoid a milk mustache.Then he'll ask for a for a pair of scissors to trim his mustache in the mirror, and a broom to sweep up his mustache trimmings.Next he'll want to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and then hang the picture on the refrigerator. 

Most ppl want to point fingers n play the blame game, but at some point you got to look n the mirror and say maybe I'm not going about this the right way.

The same goes for staging and empty room just won't sell as good as a room with(staged couch, picture, mirror, end table, plant...etc) in it.It's all about creating "preceptional value" and less work for the buyer.

The market set the income and only actual expenses set operating costs, fine for looking in the rear view mirror once in awhile, but I have to see or understand what's ahead as what is applicable to me in the future to my desired profits. 

One house had no medicine cabinet or mirror in the bathroom.

All the smoke and mirrors is not there for my benefit for sure.

Would you mirror them or do you have a glass all view of roof joists, depending on the design?

After several phone interviews and many dozens of inquiries, I finally concluded that the answer to misery was staring me in the mirror.