Just another example of "I knew it was time to sell when the shoeshine boy was talking stocks".

Stock market days like today make me feel blessed to have allocated so much of my family's personal savings in cash flowing real estate.

I have been following the Bigger Pockets podcast for quite a while now but always bounced back and forth between the stock market and real estate.

I suspect it was the same way regarding the stock market many years after 1929.

Stocks, Total International Stocks, and Total Bond) so that I have exposure to other investments besides real estate.I know your questions were geared towards notes. 

If these smaller startups can't ever make it to IPO because their funding evaporates, then suddenly there aren't any more people to fund those large down payments.The public ones use stock as substantial percentage of employee compensation, and those employees can't sell fast enough.

It's certain to be trashed.Send your letter with live postage on clean, white letterhead stock. 

My stock and mutual funds are stagnant, so I am deciding if I want to move my money around to decrease these interest payments to banks.

Or maybe they lost their money in a stock market correction while waiting. 

Here are the strategies I can think of:1) Save up $30,000, buy a house, then simply save until you have $30,000 again (with the money in a savings account or stocks depending on risk appetite), then buy again, rinse, repeat, etc..2) Save up $30,000, buy a house on a 15-year fixed mortgage to get the lowest possible rate, then when you have enough combined cash and cashable equity in your property, immediately do a cash-out refi and buy another house.3) Save up $30,000, buy a house, then when you have enough combined cash and cashable equity in your property, take out a HELOC and buy another house.