I think you gotta lay off whatever you’re smoking.

On nights, weekends, and layoffs, you would be able to work on your own house while being home with the family. 

There will be mass layoffs and people won't be able to continue to make payments on anything but the houses will be the last thing that defaults.

My husband is a general contractor here on the island.We’ve already had a huge set of layoffs at the medical center.

Yapstone lay-off 66.https://news.crunchbase.com/ne...

Economic upheavals usually effect to top and bottoms of the market - Class A becomes too expensive to justify when people are tightening their belts and Class C residents are often those effected the most by layoffs, wage stagnation and are less likely to be able to weather hard economic times.

Also look for local agencies that offer assistance to your tenants due to layoffs.

Robinhood charges no fees at all, but you will have access from your phone, so kinda hard to set it and forget it.

Maybe with the next election, maybe when tariffs start hitting, maybe someone else announces some layoffs, who knows.

With real estate, you maintain much more decisionmaking control and although we experienced a wicked housing collapse last decade, many real estate investors can still argue they maintained cashflow and that their respective market didn't feel the same pain others did.The knocks I would have against real estate is it is significantly less liquid and the fees are much higher when it comes to buying, selling and financing.With the introduction of Robin Hood, it's a race to the bottom as brokerages have been slashing trading fees in recent years.In my mind, there is nothing more passive than buy and hold stock ownership, though you may be relying more on capital appreciation, whereas many real estate investors prefer passive cashflow.