It use to be like hanging out in the bar at the club, now it's more like hanging around fifth graders at recess. :)    

Of course that's before the doctor severed my capital limbs (the doctor being the not so great recession).I was raised in an atypical blue collar family and community in So Cal.

Historically I have broker friends that have been in the business almost 50 years and have seen about 4 cycles of recessions etc.

When this occurs, there will be a great possibility the U.S. economy will suffer a much greater recession that the most recent one ... taking the real estate market with it.Just my thoughts.

Rich, Bryan Even though we are in a middle of an recession, how does that affect your building of homes?

Yes - that is a current surplus during the "recession".

We had a recession and no one was spending money so I went back to truck driving and I started a modeling and talent agency, I ran that for about six years.On my final leg of my adventure I started a personal training and sports rehab clinic in Napa Valley and teamed up with a local chiropractor.

I put the electrical outlet for the refrigerator in the same recessed alcove.Originally posted by @Matthew Paul: Those self tapping valves , and the plastic water line are floods waiting to happen ..

I'm already investing successfully with positive cash flow in Real Estate with no vacancy rate in all my properties, but I have a concern, people are leaving this island (Puerto Rico, the Detroit of the Caribbean) at historical levels, we have been in recession since 2006, we have a 87 billion debt and there's no jobs.

Because remember that in RE the cash money under the asset is figuratively in the bank and if a recession comes and you can't find any one with the credit or assets then you will be wishing you had built up (taught) your competition to interact with your investment activity.