https://www.corelogic.com/intelligence/total-investor-home-p...Historical results does not necessarily predict future results, but in the absence of something to produce a different result, why would anyone expect a different result?

I don't think it will get any easier to invest here in the near or distant future.West Oakland is definitely a volatile market, but I think it's volatility will decline and West Oakland will become more stable and predictable.

No one can predict when the market crash will happen, how severe it will be, or what it's effects will be.

I can't predict a time-frame. 

To make a public prediction I would say Jacksonville Florida or the gulf of Florida. that said your guess is as good as mine, who knows!

Each brought predictions that a San Francisco economic boom was ending.Fears expressed in1986 were soon confirmed by the Savings & Loan meltdown and 1987 stock market crash.

The pro's is its predictable but the downside is the interest is typically calculated month to month so any early payment or payments prior to the start of the new month (usually the 1st of the next month) do not lower your daily interest cost.

Flipping a house, even if Dennis does 2-3 a year, still takes months to complete plus if he has a home office in which he runs the flips from and researches for new property all while taking the tax deduction for it, is all running a business and i would be very careful playing that gameAgreed, this is a highly subjective fact intensive determination and border line cases are notoriously difficult to predict, with selected outcomes at times being contrary to what one would expect.

In addition, landlords receive a ResidentScore, which is a score that is specifically for the rental industry (15% better at predicting eviction risk than a typical credit score).

Let's start with stocks, there isn't a big secret there the best strategy is buy and hold, not trying to day trade and predict trendlines, invest in a broad index fund with low fees and wait, that's pretty much all there is to it there.