Set up a cheap website and get all your drawings on the website, then use Craigslist adds posted in out of state major cities with depressed economies. 

As with many depressed areas, there is always talk of the coming improvements and development to the area so buy now or you'll regret it later if you don't.

Only twice since the great depression did housing prices retreat nationally....the housing collapse, and in 1991 they dropped about $1800. 

I'm of the mindset of just pausing for a bit.. some random thoughts:cv could be a blip or start to longer great depression. $15 minimum wage comingstate of IL would really like hyper inflation (can't afford state pensions). 

Now that is on a national scale, and thats why we have only seen housing prices retreat on a national scare twice since the Great Depression.

Great depression lasted 10 years. if we head towards depression hopefully we try to stimulate our economy with bridges & roads infrastructure & green initiatives. 

Changes in U.S. trade policies may negatively impact Midwest RE prices,  uncapping the SALT deduction - boost RE demand in high-tax states at the expense of the rest,  proposed legislations aimed at strengthening tenants' rights and depressing rents - dampen REI everywhere.

But if they go down into negative territory like they have in Japan and Europe, we could get a deflationary depression, which could be devastating to stocks and real estate alike over the long term.Why do I invest internationally even though it’s more complicated?

That would be akin to selling your stocks in 2012 after losing your butt for 5 years; which was 5 years shy of the FULL rebound of the stock market to a point about 2x the 2007 highs.Investing in the stock market is not wisely used a short-term investment vehicle and I believe you would be doing yourself a disservice to look up and see the sky falling (due to a very clear cause -- a virus) and dump your depressed stocks so that you could put that money into a (potentially) inflated commodity like investment real estate.   

it sucked & was depressing.