You will find a total mixed bag here.

Regarding 43606, it seems like its a mixed bag over there and can find an opportunity if you pick your location properly. 

He's concerned that if we experience another recession that I will be stuck holding the bag for all the mortgages on my rental properties.

I might me letting the cat out of the bag but Huntsville, AL should be at the top of your list.Agree, typical huntsville 100k houses are in upper 200k now.Thanks to NASA and Space company in Huntsville,AL.

I always say, it if it comes in a box or bag, think twice (obv unless its simple sold by weight, like fruit in a bag).   

I didn't want someone realizing I lived there and key my truck or leave flaming bags at the door.

(2) Resin Art It's basically encasing miniature scenes, or art pieces, made with odds and ends in plastic.

Carrying a bag of useless rocks will not help you when society collapses.

Essentially you both are taking the good, the bad, the ugly legacy issues you potentially have individually and with your generations of families and blending into a new combined unit going forward.Imagine carrying a sack of weighted down junk that tires you down and every once in awhile you look into it to see what is so heavy but then close the bag back up because you do not want to do deal with it right now so keep carrying it.

If you explain about the possibility of two guys with steel pipes jumping out of the bushes the year after next and putting him in a wheelchair with a brain injury and a colostomy bag to crap in for the rest of his short life, he might still not get it.