For instance, if you want to buy-and-hold in San Diego, then yes wait until a crash when you can buy cheaper (if a crash comes anytime soon).

There are some lessons to be learned from looking at what happened during the crash in Vegas .Same in L.A too but it seems like Vegas crashed even harder and it's a lot different market since there is still land available to build .

If you have "No visibile dirt on vechile they arrived in walk through" on every application (even for your own inner-office screening form never seen by a tenant), then you are fine.

All the paperwork and money was submitted by Friday, but with the 4th being a holiday, we closed on 9/5, the day I arrived.

Yeah you can spend $3K and get a new car or fix it, but can you afford the medical bills of the people who get devastated in the crash?

House Flippers Caused the US Housing Market Crash.It suggests that it was not subprime borrowers with bad credit who caused the crash, but investors, based on the fact that the great expansion of credit happened with people who had good to excellent credit.What do you think about this argument?  

This was my experience during the 2008 crash.

The rental wasn't where I wanted to live, but it paid for the rent on the other home... then the market crashed and I lost a lot... but prior to that it worked swimmingly!  

I assume it's best to take the crash course on Saturday/Sunday?

What can be more prudent (and personal) is to have ballpark estimates on when major cap-ex expenses will arrive.