There is something to be said for the quality of fire lit under your a$$ when operating without a Plan B.I also concurrently believe that many people who do not allow for the possibility of failure in their lives are suffering from a cognitive dissonance and when they do fail, the failure breaks their minds and they rarely fully heal in the broken places.I believe consistently successful people have a dark and secretive cynical part of themselves that knows when they're cheering themselves on in a limited way to complete a difficult task and when they're lying to themselves.

She suffered a fall and a cracked vertebrate a year ago, live with us for a while in NYC, and then moved in with my sister in law in CA.

My poor long suffering accountant of 30+ years has followed me through 6 states without a hiccup. 

Hey Account ClosedI think you are just suffering from lack of intel in the area.

How else could anyone in the real estate make a profit and not suffer a loss? 

They suffered in the last downturn but they didn't quit.

When I spoke to the wife she mentioned she had been trying to sell for a while however, her husband suffers from dementia and one day he wants to sell however, the day after he refuses to do anything about their situation.

@Zachary Schneider, while the quoted portion of your post I think is correct when demand stays constant, I fear the author of that may be suffering from what's known as "reasoning from a price change."

You also have to take into account that if there is a crash that stocks, bonds, etc. will likely suffer as well (unless you are clever enough to see it coming and short the hell out of it).

Brittany, you are running into the "oh great another telemarketer syndrome", I suffer from it all the time.