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16 January 2024 | 63 replies
Also, when the next recession hits, the Fed is basically out of ammunition to combat against it, so for the first time since the great depression I think we will feel the full brunt of the recession because there will be nothing there to smooth it over.
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27 March 2016 | 6 replies
Austin has been fairly recession proof throughout the years and we are still going up.
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3 May 2015 | 9 replies
Keeping a couple of car payments and some credit card debut and rushing into real estate might not seem like such a great idea in a few years when there is a recession, one of you gets laid off, and your tenant moves out (think 2008,9,10).Here are some things my wife and I did that you might find helpful.1) Pay off credit card debt, it's a killer.
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9 January 2023 | 170 replies
He's also in very lofty areas of Miami; which were the first to go in the last recession.
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7 July 2018 | 6 replies
Generally speaking South side n Subs took the biggest recession hit and some never came close to full recovery.
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12 August 2021 | 28 replies
Even in the last recession, interest rates were in the range of 7%- you can basically spend double right now at 3% and get the same amount of house for the same gross expense.
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12 April 2017 | 25 replies
I was working in automotive when the recession hit.
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12 July 2020 | 196 replies
One or all of these things will happen, and then COVID will recede into our collective memories.If you're focused on near-term questions, my top question is whether we'll have a recession or a depression.
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26 September 2021 | 265 replies
Long story but I had a business that went south when the recession hit in '08.
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29 February 2020 | 32 replies
I believe Houston, TX was the first market to pull out of the housing recession when values recovered from their previous highs.