Absolutely sitting on the sidelines now...we will see better buying opportunities before we get s new president

Hope this post inspires someone that has been sitting on the sideline to take action.

You have sidelined their cash.

I don’t “count” on rent appreciation to make a deal work which has me on the sidelines right now (always overbid) but that’s ok, I am not willing to risk the market turning on me.

It's better to take action and potentially miss your target than to sit on the sidelines trying to figure it all out for too long.

I also realized that I would never be hurting to buy deals again, because by learning to invest virtually, essentially the entire United States could become my investing playground.If you are sitting on the sidelines and casually exploring other markets, you are partly on the right track.

I do believe there are always deals to be found/made in the RE market, but we simply have a supply constraint problem with regard to # of housing units available on the market, and those waiting on the sidelines for a dramatic "crash" will be left behind in the next 12 months.

This drastically changes my investing and consulting because I can make an educated guess about future cash flow and take advantage of the slowdown in this market while buyers sit on the sidelines watching to see what happens. 

After years of standing on the sideline and wanting to get into REI I've finally decided it is time to bite the bullet and stop being an observer and start being a player, and I am so excited to get started.

You cannot predict a crash and so many people have been waiting on the sidelines for years missing out on opportunity after opportunity because they think the crash is coming tomorrow.