RE:RE:Stay AwayYup, I agree. In the early eighties, with the real estate market severely depressed because of 20% mortages, I realized that I was looking at a chance to buy at "once in a life time" depressed prices. Being a young man, I didn't have a lot of extra coin lying around, so I refinanced my house; used that amount to buy three other houses (as you said), held onto them by my fingernails . . . and within 18 months, as the punishing interest rates began to subside, the houses had doubled in price. Most other people didn't have the nerve for that kind of activity . . . and that's why I won. It wasn't just a good plan, it was an excellent plan.