Over last few years, many investors have made great fortune in the historical stock market up and downs. Some shrewd investors with primary objective of income generation, have done successfully too with dividend stock, especially with the REITs. If you have picked up those beaten-down counters at the blessed timing and have held them through today, your portfolio is probably enjoying healthy high yield on cost, and probably having good capital gains also. Well, three factors contributed to this success. Firstly, the once-a-century event produced an extremely opportune window. When all stocks were beaten down, at the "diamond bottom" price range, it is hard for you to buy anything wrong; ( Whether the GFC is good or bad, it really depends on individual. To those laid-off workers who have been unemployed or underemployed since, and to the wealthy and shrewd who bought S&P500 index when it was below 800, ......