I ask her if we can meet so I can sign a lease, and she says her computer crashed, so she can't give me the lease, but she wants the deposit.

I feel pretty set on what I want to do but some people have told me I need to be careful on what I choose and to make sure to have a fall back plan in case the market crashes or being realtor does not work out.

The condo units in this complex lost a lot of value during the market crash and just now are going back up in value.

This makes me lean toward multi tenant to justify the cost - however that also comes with an increased up front cost as well as way more up front crash course learning with the business and tenants themselves.

The market right now is golden with increasing times in the near future but we all know the crash is coming.

slow downs can but not a full blown crash like we saw.

Lend it out to a investor and it will be protected when the real estate markets crash.

Lots of "experts" were calling the peak in 2015 or 2016 - if you'd taken the advice then and waited for the inevitable crash, you'd still be waiting.  

I plan to re-kindle this relationship and work on deals for free for him as I know he has a lot of capital from a very successful exit earlier in his career.During this time without a strict job I also want to travel to different cities (funded mostly by credit card points and crashing on friends/family couches).

I have a family member ready to walk away from a house she bought with an FHA loan right before the crash.