Real Estate.

On the one hand, the phrase has an allure.

It's land.

You know, lands real.

It's buildings, properties, estates.

And in many ways, real estate is an investment choice and opportunity that more Americans naturally and intuitively understand. I would say well more than the stock market.

Many of us have mortgages which are loans we took out to own a home

and we pay that off over time, confident that the value of our property aided by inflation

will be more, well more in time than what we paid to own it.

And that makes us real estate investors.

Oh, too, you could be a landlord or a real estate agent I'm sorry realtor anyway the stuff of real estate

is much more understandable to most of us listening right now than the stock market's

wily ways.

Oh, and let's not forget that another way to invest in real estate would be in stocks

within that industry. Reats, many of them, real estate investment trusts that pay outsized dividends, looking for some investment income in your life,

real estate can be your friend.

And yet, speaking only for myself, real estate hasn't been much of a friend to me.

I've never put up big numbers with real estate investments.

I mean, I've loved my houses over the years,

maybe one new one every decade,

but the actual increase in value of these hard assets has been for me, well paltry.

Now I hasten to add I can live in my house, I've never been able to live in my stocks,

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