Several bidders using online mapping were feverously bidding on the property.At another sale a 3 story brick row house looked good from the front, but to see the back you had to go all the way roaund the block to access an alley to see that the entire rear wall had collapsed into the back yard and there was no rear wall to the house. 

,around the time of the subprime collapse, that 50% of that areas borrowers were subprime.

Rents went up a lot here in the DC area during the recent housing collapse.

And then there is the danger of the side walls collapsing  on you and your workers. 

Contrary to the title I don’t actually think the market is about to collapse.

No offense taken Anish, easy housing credit almost collapsed the global financial system back in 2008, although one should argue that the system was already rotted out after a century of awful management and the subprime mortgage scandal was the final tipping point.

Gas prices collapsed due to fracking and shale drilling, not because people all stopped driving or started buying hybrids.

I was a victim of the last collapse in 2008 so I know you have to get in on the right time to speculate appreciation.

I had an oilfield rental business that is most likely going to fail due to oil price collapse. 

Nice borrowing $3.8M on a 140k house, I wonder who is going to get stuck with that mess when that house of cards collapses.