The beauty of long-term cash flow is a reduction in volatility.

The market is very volatile, changing every day.

Answer: The market here in small town IA is pretty well insulated from the major volatility, so I'm confident that the equity will remain or likely increase steadily.

Poker has been great to me thus far but its a volatile game and not really something I want to be doing full time as I grow older and potentially have a family.

Now to get the cash in reserve to have the down payment and make sure we'll get approved for a loan (yay working for yourself - I got batted out of a land purchase last year that I qualified for up until I filed my taxes - it's so much more volatile when you own a business, even if you have a salaried job on top of it).

I believe we are going into a global recession and the stock market volatility and performance since the new year is already giving ominous signs.

Propane is ridiculously expensive and volatile in pricing.

If you believe that the stock market may be too volatile for your liking in the upcoming years (which theres always a good chance of this), owning real estate seems to be a much more hands on, controlled endeavor.Either way, best of luck to you!

I have been looking at Evansville at a very high level.Here is what I am observing in the data:1) Evansville has low volatility in housing prices, some sections still under 2008 highs.2) There was a recent downturn starting around in Jan 20163) Some new business moving to the area, Hyatt Hotel and the Tropicana plant is opening in 2017 and a few other smaller revitalization items.4) WTF?

I don't think we will see that kind of volatility but we are definitely in a rising interest rate environment and this could continue for a while.