If you buy and some years later you decide to sell, you generally get at
least some of your money back. Not always, granted. But in a statistical
sense, residential real estate is the second soundest investment in America.
The first is stocks.

for the past 4 years, real estate has kicked stocks ass. its good to
have both. and if youre locked in to a 15 or 30, that means more money
for the 401k!