I love Gardening (Organic), I grow medicinal herbs and make teas, Beekeeping (we just started back after my husband lost his hives several years ago); Nature Photography, Antiquing and Flea Markets (Pre-Covid we were planning to drive around the country going to different flea markets and antique fairs in our vintage Airstream; but those plans are on hold), Tai-Chi (Love it!)

Although right now it seems like things are fairly stable and I believe that our government is artificially propping up this economy.

This is why they are keeping rates artificially low even in the face of INFLATION.

Following your logic, we shouldn't need a license to drive a car or practice medicine.

>True that RE also averaged higher than 3-4% in the last decade from our artificially created boom and corrupt politicians and government, but thats where the market shines, VOO or whatever index, is the same for everyone.

It’s a small dent compared to the effect of prolonged artificially low interest rates, and the hollowing out of American middle class jobs.  

We're facing an artificial contraction that can be remedied almost overnight(under 6mos).

This is actually obvious since our knowledge resides at home.b) We lose sight of the fact that investing in our home market, whether the US or Canada , is much riskier than we think as prices have been inflated by 15 years of artificial cheap money printing from the central banks, which probably won't be repeated ever again.

I would at least replace that with a vanity and if you don't have one, install a nice medicine cabinet.

I had a similar situation with property damage, one of my tenants flushed a medicine bottle down one of their toilets and backed up the whole plumbing system.