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		baccredited on Nov 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Your experience with realty investment sta... I'm not opposed to them but I don't think of them as real estate investments. REITs are stocks, so they tend to rise and fall with the overall stock market. Take a look at what happened to VNQ in 2008 (when the SP500 was down over 36%). VNQ got crushed as well.

buxtehude on Nov 8, 2017 [–]

And real estate prices didn't get crushed in 2008?

baccredited on Nov 8, 2017 | [–]

Tell you what. Next time the market is down over 20% I'll tweet how much my fundrise and realtymogul quarterly distributions have gone down. @baccredited

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