I know it will all collapse.

San Fran hit '07 levels, and if you want international London has gone past '07 highs.http://www.burbed.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/M...San Fran ^http://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/20...London ^From an arbitrage perspective, tier 2 cities are starting to look attractive from a real housing cost basis when you have to spend over 80% (sometimes over 100% if you are more junior in your career path) on living expenses to live out on the tier 1 cities.You can find 1% rule properties in the midwest, that won't suffer catastrophic market collapses, that generates 8-12% cash on cash returns, with the potential for 3-4% long term capital appreciation that you can lever up on.

Purchase price: $4,000 Cash invested: $30,000Purchased house with foundation wall collapsed.

Contrary to what you may hear, I do believe that you should have properties in LLCs, for reasons I won't get into here, but let's say I sleep well at night having full first-hand knowledge of litigation procedures and knowing that if my real estate endeavors fail, it won't be due to collapse from liability.

Almost nobody saw the Lehman Brothers collapse coming, and how it touched off a domino effect with the values of real estate and the stock market crushed almost across the board...

So are we saving our clients from divorce and financial collapse?

:giggle: They were saying the same things about Silicon Valley in the '70s - - and while there were some MINOR fluctuation, the Sky Never Fell In - - and if you look currently and read how difficult members are finding the Bay Area today, it's still has not.To see RE markets 'collapse', we would need 10x 2008 problems, major foreclosures(HUGE RE inventroies), major job losses in multiple industries, and basically, a second incarnation of the  Great Depression.

Just outside the front of the house there was a collapsed drain pipe.

Note, he did not just predict a decline, he specifically states it will be the biggest collapse in the world....... 

I started REI back in 2008 when I saw my retirement savings being threatened by the stock market collapse that I had no control over.