You're pulling from a work force of highly volatile people, who're tasked w/ doing an extremely physically and mentally draining job (in whatever weather mother nature provides for the day). 

Those funds are drained directly from checking and savings accounts, and victims sometimes have little recourse once compromised.

They pay the rent, I keep the drains running.

So far the area that I am at is draining down from the flood.

he is not sharing that info with you or I...Greenspan said the housing market is rock solid right before it crashed... everything comes in cycles... when builders can build they will build until they can't...when it goes down, the bottom will be around the same prices were in 07', and we are at that point now and the housing starts are not enough to fill demand, i think we have a few more years of run up... things will also be affected locally if we still have 10k people moving here year after year they have to live somewhere... who knows intel might not be around in 15 years and drain the local economy... 

@Dan KelleyOne piece units are my preference for new construction or if you have lots of room (and large doorways), but are frequently impossible to use for a retrofit/renovation simply because you cannot get them to, or into, the bathroom.We use a couple of 3-piece models with rolled/sloped seems which the manufacturer claims will drain and require no caulking.  

We had $15k between us to our name at the time so I bought a $295k patio home with 5% down (with concessions toward closing costs) and drained our accounts.

If the idea of having outstanding debt is mentally draining it's great that you could easily pay it off and just give yourself that peace of mind. 

The longer you have PMI the more money you are throwing down the drain.

One impact of the 1031-stepped up basis—estate tax reduction change is you have created a huge drain on revenue from the public sphere.