If the Nasdaq crashes, that affects real estate prices in my area of Seattle.

When the market crashed, our condo lost over 100k in value overnight and when my wife and I needed a bigger place to start raising a family, I had no choice but to rent it out.

Mine came in 2009 before buying was, what if I get stuck with a bunch of house s and the market crashes.  

After the market crashes why do we think our best investment is some mutual fund?

I'm as comfortable with large groups as with 2 or 3 chatting over dinner or drinks.I lost everything in the crash, my divorce and being out of work for over a year in 2009/2010.

It's obviously nice to have a fan for those unpleasant trips to the bathroom after eating Mexican but my concern is there just going to smoke there. 

THEY DON'T HAVE JOBS NOW RIGHT.......There are properties and strategies you can use to obtain property in your area, within an hr radius of you, I almost did it during what would have been the bottom of the crash nationally but the peak of the boom locally - I just didn't end up entering the Douglas market.

I am still fairly young and the time I started looking into real estate was right around the bubble burst and crash, just worked out that way for me time wise.

Your best bet is to crash on someone's couch until you have a job then start hunting for your own place.

You may have had $170K in appreciation the last few years, but how much of that appreciation was just digging yourself out from the market crash that caused you to go underwater in the first place?