We've had major problems before and in recent history (stock market crashes, housing collapse, etc).

Want to know if they can shovel snow at all my properties, clean my home, mow my lawn, and walk my dog in exchange for a break on rent. 

It's worth looking at some adjacent towns (Stratford in particular), there just isn't a large a MFR stock as in Bridgeport.

That fear has created largely volatile trading in both the stock and bond markets.

This has helped tremedously in analyzing mulitple deals. yup good time to learn excel and how to run Microsoft exchange ( at least for me ).. along with taking a deep dive into the stock market and how that all works..  

I’m looking in to buying a business and originally it was going to be basically a real estate transaction and now the seller wants to do sell the stock sale for the company.

.- If they own a bunch of homes and are lending from their HELOC...they don't want to be called on a bunch of those if price values plummet- If they borrow from another lender at a lower rate (even the 0% fed rate) with collateral tied to other assets...say the stock market...that's taken a hit, so they can borrow less. - If they have actual private lenders...which they claim they all do, but you'd be surprised how many don't...their private lenders may be going to cash and pulling their moneyYes, they need to lend money to stay in business...but if they themselves are getting squeezed, it'll come back to us investors 

During these 5 years my father, who has always invested in the stock market, has listened to my growing pains and watched with interest. 

If corporate buybacks are off the table (condition of bailouts) the stock market will go NOWHERE. 

I'm visualizing the Idaho RE markets (and most others) in terms of a baseline chart in the stock market...