The next crash is always, always, always 12-18 months away, due to some very convincing indicators:2013:Denver Post: “Buyers Caught in a Price Squeeze”CNBC: “Housing Market Already Shows Signs of a New Bubble”2014:New York Times: “The Bubble Is Back”Fortune: “Why the Housing Recovery is over, in four charts”2015:CNBC (Again): “Housing today: A ‘bubble larger than 2006’”National Review: “We’ve inflated another bubble; count on the crash.”2016:CNN: “Housing bubble fears have returned”MarketWatch: “The Seeds of the Next Housing Crisis have already been planted”2017:Forbes: “58% of Homeowners Think The Housing Market is Set for a Correction”USA Today: “Hot Housing Market Could Cool in 2018”2018:Bloomberg: “This Rare Bear Who Called the Crash Warns Housing is Too Hot Again”Maybe this time it really is... and maybe there is a massive price drop that will hammer everyone. 

Forget the stock market, I'd buy investment properties near a Toilet Paper/Paper Towel manufacturing plant, watch it spike in value for the short term & then sell before it dies down :)

Over filled a plant?

Here a Denver Post story about our local light rail expansion project's real estate acquisitions butting up against our new pot pot growing industry: http://www.denverpost.com/marijuana/ci_25397718/denver-paid-thousands-relocate-pot-plants-bridge-projectsLots of fun ramifications for the legal eagles to ponder.

Some of these are folks working at Plant Vogtle (electricians, pipe fitters, plumbers, etc.); single guys working six and seven days a week, 10 to 12 hour shifts making great hourly wages.  

Hahaha Judy I almost feel like you're a plant for Spartan Invest.

Trees have to be planted, the way a building is built, but then they have a finite number of total goodies you can get from them, like oil or other natural resources. 

First generation immigrants can prepare the soil and plant but very little fruit is harvested until their kids grow up.    

Let's see how planting a small coffeeshop does to the neighborhood. http://richmondstandard.com/2017/08/24/the-wire-actor-announces-downtown-richmond-investment-on-twitter/

Biggest deal breaker is a sewage plant on a park this size with this few homes.