You may in fact miss out on a little bit of the run-up, but when things go south and everyone is running for cover, you'll be in a stable position to clean up on the discounted assets others will be dropping like hot potatoes.Whether it's real estate, stocks, old toys on American Pickers, or a multi-billion dollar business deal, it's all about buying assets when they're cheap so that if you want to or are forced to sell down the road, you've already locked in a gain on the front end and market fluctuations in the interim won't hurt as much.

That's the American Way!

The coalition includes arms of Wall Street giant Blackstone Group, Santa Monica-based Colony Capital, Agoura Hills-headquartered American Homes 4 Rent, and Oakland's Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust.

All part of the journey from 67% home ownership to 62%. 15 million plus Americans in transition over a decade.

My American wife and I are planning to move to Austin with our newborn.

The title insurance carrier, First American Title, this attny uses will not write a title insurance policy on the deal, thus he is not able/willing to close the deal.Back in 1994 (three owners ago!)

Unfortunately this is more american and there is not much said about Canadian inventory.

Borrowing money to buy something known to go down in value 99% of the time is probably one of the larger scams visited upon the American people. 

I like Kohler and American Standard.

@Robin Croen that is great conventional advice that everybody has been told, however 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.