| Real estate is supposed to rival gold as one of the safest investments you can make. As the late rancher (and multimillionaire) Roy Rogers put it, “Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.”
So why does a brief observation of the housing market tell us otherwise? Foreclosure, subprime loans, predatory lending, defaults, homeowner assistance … all these terms have become part of the national lexicon in the last few years, leading the easily intimidated to think that it’s impossible to ever build wealth (or at least not lose it) via real estate...............................................Full Article: Source
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