,did anyone see the housing market crash coming?

It's a giant ponzi scheme that WILL come crashing down!

Then a fighter plane from Ridgecrest made such a low level high speed pass that I thought the pilot was going to crash - scared the heck out of me for a second.I really liked the fact that the land was bought and paid for in full.

If your cash position to invest is 500 or 5,000, the best advise is to continue to hoard and educate yourself through this site with seasoned pros in this industry and experienced pros in other asset classes els where. stock tips are worthless unless your friends dad works for an airline that gets a favorable decision on a plane crash case(wallstreet, circa 1987;). p.s. invest in what you know, if you know little invest in your education, books, seminars, etc.

(The development project had some trouble with their lender and the TIC is in Phoenix and they are being hit by the crashing market there.

The truth is that the vast majority of rental properties are bought by newbies who know nothing about the rental property business (i.e. ignorant newbies), who will crash and burn in a short period of time.

As investors figured out they could get good returns from securitized debt, and at the same time they were looking for a place to stash their money after the tech crash, the demand for CMOs, CDOs, SIVs, etc. skyrocketed.

Be very careful with this though, if you have shorter term financing like I do prepare for a down turn, I have no idea how much values fluctuate in your market, and if your note need to be renewed in a down market, you better have enough equity, or a pile of cash to bring in, I have seen many investors collapse because they harvested too much equity, I limit my portfolio to 40% LTV, im running about 35% on 21 properties right now, so i feel pretty safe, I was through the last crash and saw some guys i thought had it figured out crash and burn, just a word of warning. 

Search “crash” or “bubble” and you will find oodles of threads.But to answer your question my thought is to not wait to get active, but invest using a strategy that will work in any market.

I'd have crashed the car if I actually started taking proper notes.