I guess the concern is what happens if your stock portfolio crashes(and how you hedge your portfolio).

Sometime between 2016-2020 a big crash is coming, for both real estate, and stocks.

I started buying lots of houses in 2008, 2009, 2010 after the massive crash.

Then when the market crashed many equity investors as we know got hammered ( I was one of them) So then the Marketing companies repositioned the message and came up with a few new tag  lines:" appreciation is only icing on the cake its all about cash flow don't care if the asset ever goes up in value"" Live were you want but invest were it makes sense"and so on.. so you have the last 10 years of investors primed for cash flow and primed to buy were the numbers are highest vis a vi a passive rental return..

I don't want to learn from a young punk who wasn't even around for the last market crash. 

What about a down-on-his-luck 40-year old school teacher that had started getting into real estate before the 2008 crash when everything went south and his properties lost most of their value and as a result has a foreclosure and a bankruptcy on his records in the past couple years... would you lend him $250K?

This time around, I put either 30-40 percent down to lower that risk be able to reduce rents or other strategies in order to survive a potential real estate crash of values in the future.

If you had a Brokerage account invested in the S&P or Stocks in the DOT.com Crash you would have lost %50, which is where I got out of Stocks after making doubles in lots of my Stocks.

I only know one total washout - she's in her final course of chemo, though, and she may still bounce back - we'll see.One of our greatest success stories is a carpenter who was hit hard by the crash, out of work for four years, on the verge of losing his own home, acquired his first property - a REO mold farm in the subdivision across the creek from my ex's nephew's house.

People have been predicting a crash for three years.