Unless you are cash poor or just plain stupid...

Have you heard that phrase lately?  Well it is in reference to buying real estate as investment properties.  It is simple supply and demand really.  Buy low.  That is the #1 phrase they teach in investment property school.  And it is apparently followed by Warren Buffet himself.  In an recent interview he was quoted as saying he'd "buy up 'a couple hundred thousand' single family homes if it were practical to do so".  Buffett says along with equities, single-family homes are a very attractive investment right now.

And I agree!