I enjoyed reading through this entire post, and would deeply appreciate any advice about breaking back into real estate investing post-recession. thanks!

Just to make sure you don't miss your "appointment" with these "advisers", they show your name on a big screen for everyone to see -- while main instructor is supposedly providing educational content.By the way, Dayton (Ohio) is one of the hardest hit by the recession cities in America, and is very poor.

I am, but I started investing 3 years ago, been hard to do badly...Also, am not an American and we didn't really feel the recession here.

No matter what happens we all have choices and no one can take them away and less of course we let them.I lost my job just before this recession hit.

But you keep moving forward.During this Recession I know formerly rich people living on acreage in BlackHawk doing side plumbing jobs, Formerly rich people fixing fences.

The stock market has predicted 7 of the last 3 recessions - Paul SamuelsonThe market will do whatever is necessary to prove the majority of experts wrong - UnknownYour employees will treat your customers the way you treat them - Fortune MagazineI much rather regret the things I did than the things I didn't - Lucille BallYou can take my factories, burn down my buildings... but give me my people and I'll build those businesses right back - Henry FordA problem well defined is a problem half solved - John DeweyFor the same reason the pilot of this airplane keeps the engines running after we're already in the air - William Wrigley, Jr. during a flight with reporters asking why he continues to advertise even though he's the number one brand of chewing gum

Not too many tools to use for the next recession.

A few years ago during the Great Recession, when at last we’d settled down, in metro Detroit, we picked up an almost-new short sale condo in an upscale area that is renting well, and a just-rehabbed foreclosure SFR from a flipper.

Thats the thing with recessions.

History tells us we're do for an economic reset, more than likely a recession led my a market adjustment.