I personally think many investors are sitting on the sidelines and waiting for unemployment numbers to improve,US soveriegn debt crisis to be resolved, EU debt issues to be solved, US dollar to increase and overall global economic confidence to resume.

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What the other posters are talking about is spreading your equity out among more properties to achieve greater global cash flow.When I first started out I paid cash for a 5 unit while I learned the business.  

With negative rates starting to spread globally, this continues, but is slowing.  

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It is probable that under a free market economy the DOW would have fallen below 4000.However, we do not live in a free market global economy and given that government-financial sector complex has virtually unlimited ability to create money and absorb debt if it is done on a global scale they can play the system any which way they choose to.The DOW has tested 6500 recently and moved up sharply since.

I suspect this October in the next auction I will bring on more land, so long as the bond market doesn't send the entire global economy over the edge.

With talk of a devaluing dollar, and the realization that the world today is increasingly global, I wanted to start a thread on REI diversification.Now, for most of us it is not feasible to buy property Cambodia or India, for example.

Here's a link to realtors in Greece listed in Global Property Guide.

Given the likelihood that executive action is very likely before 2017 to stop global cooling/warming/climate change/disruption, I don't see wage inflation causing much of an issue for the next two years.