I'm just now starting to see increasing numbers of stories about how (formerly) middle class people are having to sell important possessions on ebay and craigslist.

You've made money upfront, cashflow in the middle, and when the house closes money on the back end.

Sometimes I don't find tenants until the middle of the month, so I prorate and collect full rent on the 1st of the month.

Think "big house stuck in the middle of the road".

That being said, about 6 or 7 years ago I was staying with my then wife in my parents $950,000 house in a luxury neighborhood when it was broken into in the middle of the night.

If someone leaves in the middle of the school year you may have trouble renting to other students, who are locked into leases.Here in my city when a college renter violates ordinances I am the one who gets fined.

There are some towns out there that are good for low to middle class, decent job market, and somehow managed to escape the real estate bubble.

All four of my grandparents as well as my father had passed away before I was out of middle school.

Alright, so it's been another month and I would like to chat a bit about the portfolio I prepared back in the middle of March.This was two months ago, I felt pretty strongly that the market had bottomed out or was very close to bottoming out, so I started eyeing many stocks.

My middle credit score is 793.At the first bank, the underwriter didn't like the "feel" of the loan, whatever that means, and I would have had to come out of pocket.