The combination of overly aggressive mortgage brokers, appraisers who are in the realtor's/mortgage broker's pockets, and greedy lenders led to a situation where housing demand was grossly artificially inflated.

The demand for housing was and still is being artificially inflated because lenders were loaning money to people who had no business getting those loans.

When the lenders were loaning money to anybody and their dog, it massively and artificially increased demand, which massively and artificially increased prices.

There's a guy here in Fort Wayne that is a full time doctor of medicine and has 1 rental.

Government has involvement has only raised prices (artificially) and kept the wheels of capitalism from turning.

Don't go put your money in a restaurant chains, but in a grocery store partnership for example ( :) ) In recessionary times, restaurants can get killed.Speaking of dying, phamaceuticals are also a good recession proof ploy, not in just medicines but also in medical equipment and assessories.

Like, total criminal running the thing, bad finances, no reserve fund yet, dues kept artificially low, etc.

According to Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital (which manages nearly $50B) distressed single family housing is one of the most attractive investments of the past 20 years because government intervention has kept affordability artificially high (due to low interest rates) and you can buy below replacement cost even after the expense of fixing up the property.

I will be finishing 4th year medical school and becoming disillusioned with medicine.

If it's a puddle, maybe we should look up and fix the leaky ceiling that's causing it.We may be able to dry up the puddle, but it's artificially solving the problem.