Parts of Auburn-Gresham has its crime challenges while other parts can resemble suburban oasis with well orchestrated block clubs.  

We lost everything.Jeff - Haha, I resemble that remark! 

Hardly a resemblance of the rest of the state.We live in Maryland, but the majority of our investments are located in NoVA due to tenant laws.

Same can be said for the real estate market, the billion dollar industry of forums, books and training has propped up real estate by investors and institutions that resemble an overvalued stock that is not inline with incomes.250k in the S&P 500 10 years ago would be 900k today with no effort.

One thing comes to mind is : At or close to retirement, the RMD vs RE would resemble a figure X. 

It's also one of the reasons there are hard lines on anything that resembles advertising or promotion in the forums outside the marketplace.

If you look at the German village area in Columbus today it doesn't even resemble what it was back in the late 1980s.

They'd be better off buying their stock options with cash and selling covered calls.while I can understand that someone poor with little capital who drank kool aid on owning rentals has no choice but to buy ghettos marketed by bottom feeders, what I don’t understand is why anyone well-off from Cali would want to expose themselves to the risk of owning something that resembled the conditions in the third world or sub-Saharan Africa? 

Charlie Munger, one of the great modern minds in investing, condemns physics envy: the tendency of economists and investors to reduce the the intricacies and complexities of the world to simple formulas and models to resemble the order and predictability of the natural world.

These wholesaler threads often end up resembling a cartoon of a person with a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.