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Investing in REITs: Using the Economic Downturn to Your Advantage
If you are like a lot of investors, you are not a big fan of watching what is happening to your current investments as of late. The market has been having a tough time for the past year. Those who had great investments a year ago are now seeing that all that money they put in the first place is just a mere husk of what it used to be.
 
So what is an investor to do? for many people the answer is to run for the hills. They are taking whatever money they have left out of the market and hoping to make their profits some other way. Sadly, this is the complete wrong answer in this situation.
 
In many sectors you should be doing just the opposite. You should be investing. One such market is real estate.
 
Let's take a look at what has been happening in the real estate market in the past year or so. The value of real estate has dropped, occupancies in commercial real estate has dropped and with it the value of REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and real estate mutual funds.  In many cases, these investments are at an all ... more

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