House. Losing on your investment?

[nevets88]

I stayed a year in an apartment while my house was getting built from the ground up. i got no money back at all.

There's condos and co-ops, both are different types of ownership, the co-op being more restrictive - interviews, paperwork and all that.

I've gone house hunting in the south and midwest and would enjoy all that space and zipping off to golf courses in no time, but my parents and friends are here, so it is what it is. I used to work for one of the Federal Home Loan banks, in the World Trade Center Tower 2 (that's another story), a long, long time ago and it was a very stable job, due to it's association with the government and experienced nowhere near the volatility we see today obviously. CMOs were relatively new, but not the beast they are now.