, free washer drier, day care nearby.    

For the first time in years, Americans are seeing their homes as investments.The American Dream of homeownership—having a place to call your own—may not have dissipated during the housing crisis, but the concept of home-as-investment tumbled just as home prices did.According to a recent Gallup poll, real estate beats out stocks, bonds, savings accounts and even the Great Recession's investment darling, gold, as the favored form of long-term investment.

Too bad they can't harvest tumble weeds or sage brush.

Even if your repair tech. can find and fix the leak, it may still be an outdated system, even if it's sized properly for the home.There is a direct replacement for R-22 which requires minimal parts replacement (schrader valve internal parts, filter-drier) and that can save you some money.

We have family in Europe who have the cassette type mini splits, but they are in a considerably drier climate. 

So some fluff to justify a book, but worth it.A third but much drier and a tough read is:3.

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If you look at GDP from '07-'09, you'll see it start to fall and then then it comes back up for a while, then it starts to tumble.

This is the best place they could be spending their time rather than perusing useless posts on Facebook, Tumble or god knows where else.

This is bad news for the remaining (i.e. small) investors who have to fight for the crumbs.The scary part is if any one of these few buyer pools or banks has a change of direction, the house of cards can tumble -- or 43% of it according to the article.