She will get to jet all over the world to party with world leaders, while Obama will be stuck here, leading the United States through the worst depression in history!

In the last depression, the market lost 89%.

We are just now entering the job loss phase of this recession/depression and things could get VERY ugly.

For me, there are three legs to this stool: 1) location, 2) upgrading my units to be the best in their area, and 3) offering more bang for the buck (being able to lower rents as the market dictates).Of course, if we hit the skids of another great depression I may rethink my strategy while standing in the soup line....

oh, I also found out the HO has been arrested a few times. disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, drunk driving.

Depressed area?

The rock star of Austrian economics, also predicted the Great Depression in 1927, and WWII in the early 30's.

Use the analogy of how the Rockefellers made their fortune in the depression, etc.4) With making offers, I would make ridiculously low offers with a straight face, as I hear about so many people getting smoking deals for 50% of today's value

Some of them have had a lot of misdemeanors (usually disorderly conduct) when they were younger.

We're in the middle of the worst housing depression in 100 years and the best you can do is buy a property that will break even?