If you've worked up a $2 million next egg and are getting ready to retire, seeing that drop to $1.2 million is incredibly depressing.

So I've gone from depressive to manic to normal in the last few weeks.

Failing to do that, your progress would be slower as you'd be spreading yourself and your knowledge expansion too thin.I'm in Calgary for a short time and I've heard the market here is quite depressed, however prospects for improvements are high and new home developments are still underway.

Yes depending on the area and the bank there are minimum values that most lenders will want so buying in a depressed geography where values for rehab houses are less than $50K can make refi’s challenging.

It doesn't matter if the reason is alcoholism, immaturity, depression, narcissism, or being a space alien.It's possible that a carrot/stick will work.

In the period preceding the Great Depression from 1921-1929, the money supply grew by 68.1%.

The other home, near monterey, has been rented by the same tenants for the past 4 years and I have just raised the rent, but not by much due to the looming economic depression so as they are happy and want to continue renting.  

Virtually the only people to lose money on San Diego buy n hold RE are people that sold when the market was depressed. 

At the time the housing market (in our neighborhood in particular) was so depressed we couldn’t sell our home without taking a huge (50-60%) loss.

I've run numbers in multiple locations, on a few islands and I've found that the ROI on SFH and even duplex investments is depressingly low.