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An 11 page paper. The issue is to justify an investor investing $1 million in real estate rather than stocks and bonds. The paper begins with real-life examples of individuals who have enjoyed very high returns on their real estate investments. Average rates of return for real estate as compared to some other types of investments are reported as are forecasted trends. Statistical data included. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Airport, which is in a suburb outside Los Angeles (OKeefe, 2002). They paid $75,000 for the house and over the years, they have made a number of improvements, enlarged the
house, remodeled, and installed a pool (OKeefe, 2002). They put in about $250,000 in extras, enlargements and updates; today, the house is valued at over $1 million (OKeefe, 2002). The
Purvises never thought of their home as an investment, they just bought a modest home and then updated, upgraded and remodeled and now they find their home is a very
lucrative investment (OKeefe, 2002). Because the stock market has been so fickle in recent years, Bill, who owns a paper recycling company, pulled $250,000 out of his $1.5 million
portfolio and bought a four-unit apartment house with part of it and put the rest in a money market fund (OKeefe, 2002). Bill says: "The market just doesnt make any
sense to me anymore. I dont see the positive financial numbers that some of the gurus are putting out. The only place we see strength at this moment is in
real estate" (OKeefe, 2002, p. 94). Bill isnt the only one with that feeling; the market just does not make much sense even to the gurus and certainly not to
the average investor. Real estate, on the other hand, has held its own, in fact, its done more than hold its own, it has appreciated dramatically (OKeefe, 2002). OKeefe reports
that the median price for a home in the U.S. is $151,000 (2002); the median price is the price halfway along the scale, half of the homes fall below and
half of the homes go above that figure. That median price is 30 percent greater than it was in 1997 (OKeefe, 2002). Why? Because people are putting their money in
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