But that cycle of boom/bust of housing SALES (and typically what people refer to in valuation) is a lot of risk for most people, and the facts of the economic collapse speak for themselves.But the RENTAL side doesn't have those same boom/bust cycles.

If that is eaten away by repair costs from the get-go, the model collapses.

When the housing market collapse during 2011 (know there was before that), there was massive foreclosures everywhere.

@Bill Brandt    Keep in mind, the mortgage securitization industry collapsed back then. 

He worked on drains and with the video camera he saw that the cast iron pipes had collapsed just outside the house.

Originally posted by @Chris Purcell:@Rogers SmithFor student loans - how would this cause a collapse?  

If the deal collapses and I would lose everything, I'm out.

The medical field would collapse without you guys!

Given that Obama felt the need to SOMETHING, and given that the big autos, the banks, and other industries were practically begging for bailouts (and giving ultimatums that the economy would collapse if he didn't), it seems to me that Obama just followed the path of least resistance.

is America on its way to being one of the great civilization to collapse like Rome, Egypt, and several Chinese dynasties.