They have been in the news for many scandals including this instance Judge Wins for taking a voucher.

Yes indeed.Bruce Norris put out an interview with Harry Dent (with controversial history of predictions), but does bring up the point about China's bubble that should be popping anytime soon.http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/blog/news/harry-dent...I don't think the Chinese are generally over leveraging in the States (mainly paying in cash since banks are still pretty stringent on their underwriting standards), so I think the ones left out will be heavily leveraged investors flipping a home that can't maintain cash flow.Maybe not government intervention, but maybe the Chinese mainland will just have a huge economic slowdown resulting in no more cash flowing in from China. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australi...

I just heard a news story about a young homeless man in San Diego who is living on the streets now because he lost his fourplex due to civil forfeiture.

It has been a growing problem that appears on the news weekly during the winter. 

They may rust on the outside but if it isn't leaking then you don't need to dig it out and replace it. 50-60 years isn't that old for cast iron, you can get over 100 years out of them consistently.

See this news story.  

@Ryan BaroneGreat news!

Keep in mind the 1% rule has been arround when interest rates were double digit. 

DFW Home Sales See First Y-O-Y Decline In Nearly Two Years DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – North Texas home sales fell 3 percent in June, marking the first year-over-year decline in almost two years.