Insight of investing in real estate verses in the stock market, real estate ownership is tangible , you can touch the dirt -not just a piece of paper

A few days ago I went out with a customer that I have worked with for several years. In fact this person has been looking through the last two downturns and regrets it . He said to me something that was quite profound . He regreted not buying right at the bottom of the last down . He thought that if he waited it would hit bottom but when it hit bottom it took off so fast that he never realized it hit and before he knew it he never got the chance . By the time he noticed that values were not still declining , they had gone above what he could afford as a second home. He had waited too long . He wished that he had his money in real estate instead of the stocks. While the market for both are down and subprime has made a mess of the housing market , real estate is the best place to invest for the long run , He said what he noticed from the past , he is not going to let happen to him again. While we were looking at what the houses have done for values in the short run right now but we are not looking historically. When the market was bad the last few times the bottom never got to the same bottom as it hit the last time. No the bottom was not lower it was always higher . The plateau had always risen. He said with stocks, yes most of it will eventually come back , some of it simply will not as the company is no longer in business . What you have is a piece of paper that is only as good as the company that you have stock in. If you buy a home or land, you have something you can feel. When the market is down you can always use it . It is real , it is tangible , you can feel it , you can touch it and you know it is there . And if you wait it will come back unlike a company that could go under , your home (or your land) will still be there. This is why Real estate is the best choice

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