I was an underwriter all the way until my lay-off, earlier this month.  

I've seen companies lay off thousands of engineers and programmers at a time, but no one walks away from infrastructure.Amazon announced three more centers in Las Vegas.

I have some cash I’ve been saving up to invest in real estate that I’ve just been keeping in my safe (too easy to access putting it in the bank for me) that I am thinking about doing the same thing you did and put it in robinhood.

I would be sure to make sure the platform ALLOWS you to transfer them to your hard wallet before you do because Robinhood for example doesn’t allow you to.

I almost purchased a fairly new fourplex there a few years back, but local residents warned me that the market depends heavily on Lockheed Martin for jobs, and one big layoff could devastate demand there.

Interestingly the tech layoffs that have occurred (AirBnB, Intuit, godaddy, lyft, uber) have largely impacted employees outside the Bay Area and not local employees as much.Also if you read the news the IPO market and the tech M&A markets are very strong to enable startups to exit.

I don't think this is directly attributable just to the oil market (and all the recent lay-offs) yet, but that isn't going to help.Out in your neck of the woods (Wasilla) they've built over 300 multi-family units in the last year.

At this point, my only suggestion is that you lay off your daily dose of COPS and open your eyes to the real world.  

They will cease to issue as many vouchers, lay off staff, stop allowing exceptions to the FMR for tenants with special needs, etc. but the rules governing payments and their calculation are in stone.

C'mon guys, lay off her.