In my opinion, some of the ultra modern condos on beach finished right after the housing crisis have more potential in appreciation as many of them are currently selling way below the construction costs.

How much decline did coasts see vs. midwest in the recent crisis?

I am usually diplomatic but as I said this time I didn't care and when I don't care, I don't care.And as a matter of fact other wholesalers moved him down there list because we had a sort of wholesalers union going on at the time, a sort of wholesaling mls.

It's been at least 300bp up in every upward rate cycle, and prime was 825bp going into the crisis (+500bp from today)..

I don't know if that development ever got built, but if it did, I bet it looked like ground zero of the foreclosure crisis.2 is nothing to worry about.

During the housing crisis everyone relied on REO for inventory, but that is virtually gone.

They were just much more plentiful during the crisis..As an old Chinese proverb goes, the best time to plant a tree was 10 yrs ago - the next best time is today..

However, if you find yourself in a crisis, you won't have the cash to get out of it.  

Doing an 80% 1st with a 2nd on top of it was a very common practice before 2008 but dried up with the mortgage crisis.

I need about 150k to help my sister out of a financial crisis, in addition to that I have been advised by many people to pull equity out of the building and leverage it to purchase another building and or use the additional money to pay the cost of separating the utilities here.