"Investments" have serious risks and routinely rise and fall with the markets' activity.
I think many of us who live here look at our homes as a place to live and make our home, and not so much as an investment.
Millions of people across the country have found out what a "good investment" their homes were when they try to sell them and could not, or have had to sell them for 50-60% of what they were worth just a couple of years before. In fact there are Villagers who fled that in other states and came here, in part because TV home prices weathered the recession well when the rest of the state was floundering.
There are all kinds of risks in real estate.
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