How Do Apartment Building Investments Compare to Stocks?
All investing involves some kind of risk. Generally speaking wise investors will try to ensure that their risk is outweighed by the potential gains. I say potential gains because there really is no such thing as a sure thing investment. And of course there are numerous pro and cons to each investment class. What surprises me is how much time and energy individual investors allocate to determining the worthiness of a particular company’s stock and how little attention they give to the appropriateness of stocks in general for their overall portfolio. It seems like investing in common stocks is the de facto method of investing here in the United States without many giving the idea much thought or looking to alternative investment strategies such as commercial real estate. Meanwhile, the large banks and brokerage houses would not have it any other way. They make billions of dollars off their clients accounts as they trade themselves into oblivion. So, let’s take a layman’s look at stocks a
