Mike, If this impending crash has the effect of reducing government, then great financial opportunity 
will present itself for people to buy properties at prices less than the cost of the building material it would take to build them. But if government does not significantly shrink, it will continue to stifle business with over regulation and bleed the life out of businesses and citizens through all forms of taxes, user fees, and government revenue schemes. There will be no growing the economy after the reset of a crash if our huge per capita Gov. just continues to suck the life out of any possible economic growth. Small Gov. everybody wins if they invest during the crash. Big Gov. anybody who invests hard money even when properties are giveaway prices is foolish. It's too bad Gov. grew well funded and well manned for 40 years on big oil money. It has matured into something working Alaskans neither want nor can afford.