However, there is proof that today’s standards are nowhere near as lenient as they were leading up to the crash.The Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center issues a monthly index which,“…measures the percentage of home purchase loans that are likely to default—that is, go unpaid for more than 90 days past their due date.

Account ClosedMy 401k invested in S&P 500 index funds has worked just fine.   

I would put the $90,000 into the S&P 500 index and get a better return without tenants, toilets, and termites.

The affordability index here versus the jobs and businesses is incredible.

Other info: Here are some folks talking about indexing. 

Due to getting into a bunch of new hobbies/interests which take up a good chunk of my free time, I have been putting my dollars bound for investments into large apartment syndications primarily (and maybe only 20% of investable capital into index funds).Is there a problem with this?

We will not even go over hedonic indexing, substitutions, etc.

There is generally a recording delay that creates a gap period between when a document is presented to a recoding office and when it appears in the index of recorded documents. 

You won’t see it in the data for a few more months (except the sharpest drop ever MoM in the case Schiller index earlier this week)  Do you know what the Case Schiller index actually measures?

There's nothing "warm" about his plan. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/warm-calling.a...https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?