Remember when there is blood on the streets, BUY BUY BUY.I would like to just make one more statement and i will end the rant lol.

Too cold for my southern blood these days, but I enjoy being from Long Island.  

My grandmother, on the other hand, had investing in her blood - and she used to say "I don't want to own everything, only what's next to me."

Charles, you're a CPA you know what an investment is LOL....Jon, I agree totally and I'd have to repeat much of what you said.Use to be and still in many areas, landlords are "operators" as well as one who acquires RE for a profit in a short period of time.If you had a candy store, buying sugar really isn't seen as investing, it's inventory and part of operating the business.

I believe it is Warren Buffet who says to buy when there's blood in the street and sell when everyone else is buying.I'm on the same track as you, switching from an appreciating market over to a cash flow market.  

I've used it on everything from sugar ants to bees.

They want to deal with a person, not some faceless machine that requires an email and a pint of blood to get any information.

Tim read the response i posted to jawsette but lets just do a bried overview, the products that supported america when it was brand new tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar, then later cotton in the south who worked the fields to grow those crops.

I believe that Jesus Christ was the incarnate Son of God, the Messiah, and the final blood sacrifice necessary to pay the price of human sin, as prophesied over 100 times in the Old Testament, and affirmed through various witness accounts of the New Testament.

The Iranian President is EVIL and is hell-bent on starting world war three and drawing as much blood as he can.