There was 20 to 25% equity in them all but during the crash they went into negative equity. 

Before the crash, everything I touched turned to gold, so can't wait to dive into the investing pool again. 

When the market crashed a ton of potential buyers became tenants for a number of reasons.   

Before the market crash I bought, rehabbed and sold two whole properties.

While there is always somebody predicting a crash, there are a number of people who have some pretty convincing arguments (based on fundamentals) that real estate will enter a significant decline in the next 1-3 years.

The law was put into place after the 1929 crash as some banks were speculating in real estate rather than focusing on lending money.The regulators who check the books of the bank will require excessive capital reserves for any property taken back in a foreclosure.

Since our server crash this week, we've been paying close attention to the site and have determined that we need to once again upgrade our servers.

Those projects were all before the market crashed.

You will see that it resembles Florida a lot more then most of the the west coast does as far it's recovery after the crash.  

@Orlando Guzman That is some impressive editing skills, I remember when Windows Movie Maker was the only free option and it crash every 20 minutes haha.