Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah, but that was Japan, and this is the USA. Big difference. If you go back 100 years, real estate is hands down the safest and best investment out there. Even if you lose money, which you won't, you can write it off. That's capitalism at its best and you cannot do that in Japan. Reason is because our population keeps increasing because of our immigration policies. I'm sitting on 100K for doing nothing and I get $8000/year in taxes. Not bad.