There was a time when people were told to buy a house, its the American dream.

As an African American woman, with skills in property management and RE sales, you would be very well positioned to help yourself and any business that hired you gain access to those dollars.

All wars fought by Americans took place on foreign soil in far away countries and did not effect the average American.

Therefore, I had thought gold will peak in 2010.Looking at the long term dollar chart, I am under the belief that after 2011, assets that favorable will be american assets and the U.S. dollar, where as from 2001 - 2011 foreign assets and weak dollar was the play.

Has anyone heard of Robert Woodruff with North American REIA and he also says he runs the Charleston Investors Real Estate Association and Woodruff Investing I am in the Tulsa OK area and seen on Meetup he is the speaker for the Tulsa REIA meeting tonight.

This is the kind of Intellectual capital that makes me proud to be an american.

From an article in the Economist on 8/24/16:"On average, American home prices have recovered nearly all their losses from the 2006 crash, but when adjusted for inflation they are still 20% below the 2006 peak."

They use American Estate & Trust as the administrator, they are holding your cash and assets. 

Day trading is definitely not passive, but investing into the S&P 500 broadly, without picking stocks - or just "buying a slice of American business" as Warren Buffett calls it - is very passive. 

It's called gentrification and it's a very positive thing.You can get in place housing like this in some areas for $30,000, and improve them to your hearts content, and it will always be 1000% better in every way than living in a Maersk Shipping Container (painted with lead paint).But giving up on life and the American Dream and living in substandard housing leads to no improvement.