real estate investing versus stocks

In part 2 of this series, I had asked if there was anything an investor can do to affect the market value or returns of his or her stocks or real estate investments. I’ll do my best to answer this in this third and last part of this series.

In Part 1 of this series, I mentioned that no bank in their right mind would lend money for stock investments. This is simply because the probability of stocks losing much of their value or becoming worthless in a short amount of time is very high and very obvious.

I stumbled upon a hot topic at sulit.com.ph about which investment vehicle is better to invest in, real estate or stocks. Of course you would expect me to have a bias towards real estate, but before you make up your minds, let me first try to objectively state the advantages and disadvantages of both real [...]