That 15-month build-up was a real slow-motion event, not an illusion.But the panic returned in the spring with the failure of Bear Stearns in March 2008, followed by the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in June.

It said the collapse will happen to the next president after Obama.

At 22% cap rate your left brain could collapse and you still wouldn’t lose money.

It happens - I live in a super hot market, that collapsed a little over a decade ago, and it's been a tough climb back to where values should be. 

The remaining 25% goes into the house rehabbing business to grow it faster, provide more security etc.Once that was all said and done it would provide a good amount of extra cash every year to continue the same strategy and grow more, or possibly put the extra money in large multi's if the market will support it.My first goal would be to secure the capital in the safest investment and IMO all cash SFH's can weather a LOT of ups and downs in the market short of a total local economic collapse, like company A provides 90% of the jobs in your town and they go out of business over night.

Unless there is a complete collapse of the financial system, I don't see where you think there's a risk.

My fundamental analysis tells me now that fewer and fewer taxpayers can not pay for all the entitlements in the next few years and that the US economy is going to collapse.

Investments must make sense short-term as well as long-term.Letting our whole economy collapse, I don't think is the solution.

Josh,Well the Mets can be there, but the Brewers collapse at the end as well, as they did last year and again this year.

Have you any idea what type of load it would require to collapse and or shear these joints?