Its culture and psychology too.Plus, a home is a place to live.

I am a 2016 graduate from the University of Illinois at Chicago where I played on the women's basketball team & studied psychology.

Motivational speakers are different, still the psychology is the same, the fearful and lazy might be better served seeing a shrink.  

It's an article about psychology and use of color in marketing.http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-colors-in-marketing-why-is-facebook-blue

A third group, the upper middle class/slightly rich folks, would invest it, since they have less shelters than the really rich folks and more of their real income passes through and is taxed as ordinary income.It seems in all three cases, the extra money still goes into the economy and creates jobs and income for people.With regard to the psychological effect of the cuts, I agree with your point 100% that it will affect the middle class the most.Originally posted by J Scott:- Changing economic policy works when it changes behavior -- get people to do things that otherwise weren't doing, and the economy is affected.

Do human behaviors/psychology change with each cycle?

3) Would the financial/psychological/time commitment worth it.4) Knowing what you know from RE, if you were in my position (considering RE as a side venture) what would you do?

If a seller does have to disclose emotional defects, which ones and how much detail they need to go into again varies among locations.In Massachusetts, for example, the possibility of a property being “psychologically impacted” isn’t considered a “material fact required to be disclosed” to potential buyers.

And fear is way more powerful than hope.You can see this fear/hope in psychological/economic experiments.

Unless he has a somewhat unique psychological profile, the buyer who pursues houses not on MLS is either an investor looking for a fixer he can purchase cheaply or looking for a property he can buy subject to the mortgage while putting in low or no down payment, or someone who thinks he will be able to cut the price by the amount of the commission the seller is saving.