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Will the so-called real estate bubble burst like the dot-combubble did a few years back?

There are some good argumentson both sides of the issue. Whatever happens in the next fewyears, it will affect millions of Americans, and thereforealso millions of people worldwide. If the bubble does"burst" as some say, it is all but certain we could, or morelike would, go into a recession. A deep one. Right now thereal estate

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First of all, to compare the real estate industry with thedot-com industry is unreasonable. It's comparing apples withoranges. The real estate industry has been and will alwaysbe a central part of the US economy. It will never disappearand there will always be a need and demand for it. Investingin real estate makes sense for the long term. On the otherhand, the dot-com bubble was not based on anything more thanspeculation. Many businesses were trading on the stockmarket for unreal amounts of money and never made a dime inprofit and ultimately never would.

So for me, some of this thinking is this: "Well, the stockmarket had the dot-com boom and then it collapsed, so now wehave this real estate boom so surely it will collapse also."I just don't go along with that comparison. Again, these aretotally different industries and markets. Heck, if we canpay $20,000, $50,000 and even up to and over $100,000 onautomobiles, then spending $300,000, $1,000,000 and more onhomes seems very reasonable. Property will always be thereas long as the

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The reason there is a good argument for the belief that thereal estate industry will have a major downturn is becausesome people, perhaps a good amount of people, won't be ableto keep up with their mortgage payments if they start losingtheir jobs and the economy slows down. The rise in gasprices could have a major effect on the economy and if thesehomeowners start defaulting on their mortgages then thiscould turn the industry around.

Many home owners and speculative real estate investors areusing what some would call risky home mortgages, theinterest-only and no-income verification

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There are those on the side of the inevitable downturnphilosophy, who are preparing for the worst. Just as somepeople can make money on the stock market even when it goesdown, there are those who are preparing for a possible ?inevitable in their minds - downturn in the real estatemarket.

Here is one such way to capitalize on a real estate bubbleburst or at least a downturn: pre- foreclosure deals. Thereare some investment clubs that are based solely on waitingfor this to happen and then buying into this market. Peoplewill be foreclosing in record numbers if this downturncomes. Perhaps it is more accurate to say when, because ashistory shows there are always downturns in the market; andwith all the creative financing, no interest loans and noincome verification loans the probability of a downturn islikely. However, this is different than a "burst."

1. The market will keep going the way it has the last fewyears, which is up, up and up. Quickly is some areas. Notlikely.

3. The market will have a slight downturn and many will losetheir homes and many will benefit from this. Very possible.

4. The market will "burst" the "bubble" and there will be amajor catastrophe in the industry. Possible, but not aslikely as 2 and 3.

Tim Phelan makes his living now online and has been involvedin real estate as an investment for several years.Tim Phelan's

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