Well, my mother-in-law is pretty good to me. I fix her computer and she fixes me supper all the time.
Seems to me the stock market is a lot harder to figure out.
The value of stocks and the value of real estate can both rapidly fall. However, when the stock value collapses, what do you have? A piece of paper? If land value collapses, at least I could grow a garden or have a place to live...