Cars can be expensive but for many men it is just a tiny fraction of the money they will spend on women!

Most out of area investors look at Large MSA's with good reason, lots of data, stable employment, ect, but i will stick with tiny town USA and if im spread out over many little towns, i  spread my risk of "the Big Employer" pulling out.  

For some owning is a better option especially if you buy like an investor. lower down payments, taxes, insurance, improvement potential, appreciation. here for example my first home I paid 715/mo and if I were to have wanted to rent a similar house it would be $1200/mo, only way to save there would be to go to a tiny apartment.

Here is the wife in a cave in the middle of a 'bait ball'  (1000's of tiny silver bait fish that form a huge circle)

Commercial real estate is usually a leading indicator and there are some troubling signs statistically, and many malls are melting down now.The most important takeaway though is that yeah we may be in a bubble, but if you find a sweet deal and you're not forced to sell it, even if it rents for a tiny bit less during a downturn, who cares?

When I lived there, gang warfare erupted and 19 people were killed in that tiny little area in the span of a few months.One of the most valuable real estate investing lessons I received came from the father of the girl I was dating back in 1995.  

Here is the full explanation:http://www.madfientist.com/how-to-access-retirement-funds-early/ I think I've read that article at least once, and it doesn't sink into my tiny brain.

Our mortgage payments are now much lower than current market rents  (and although we only have a modest 3 BR, 2 BA with a little tiny front yard.

Here are a couple of things that help me save and also, I think, challenge me to live a tiny bit more lightly on the planet. 1.

A big, fat, happy California Public Pension paycheck every month for the rest of my life and a 39 unit apartment complex with a monthly mortgage smaller than The Grinch's tiny, shriveled up heart.