Or everyone could forget about it next year, like the Dutch tulip bulb craze from centuries ago and be worth zero!!

If you look at the ratio of government to GDP for local, state and the federal governments over the last two centuries, you will notice that there is an inexorable trend towards larger government.How do we control this?

Seems reasonable, since the S&P has historically only paid 10-12% for the last half century.

I have had my personal clients completely wiped out buying low end duplexs in INdy.. reason is MOst were built back in the turn of the century and are now squarely in the worse neighborhoods in town..

Hello everybody, I am putting together my first deal- a century home duplex.

First, no disrespect to anyone but I think someone needs to chills and beam into the 21st century.

Well, now that is interesting, comparing educational institutions like Harvard to some privately owned organization pumping what they see or claim to be an education.For centuries, there have been two areas to teach or educate people skills and knowledge to earn an income, they have always been divided as to a vocation and a profession.Vocations have been through apprenticeships, the student learns from the "master" of the skill or art being taught.

I looked around for a while and couldn't figure the best place for this question.Here's the situation: I'm looking at BRRRRing an early 20th Century house in Nebraska.

Everything from rents and property values that decline in inflation adjusted dollars, to issues of building/maintaining trusted teams, to expertise that allows one to know their given market, etc.Case Shiller lists San Fran as having produced the best return on buy and hold residential RE for this century. 

Where the REAL steals were in the near Downtown neighborhoods or the "exclusive" areas with 4000-8000 sq ft homes, limestone, turn of the century woodwork, etc that just couldn't be done at any reasonable price today.Those homes were in bad need of updates (galvanized pipes,  knob and tube, radiators, 100 year old windows, etc).