Why did you decide to do real estate from the crash and on?

When the market crashed in 2008 I jumped to the real estate side and worked as an in-house RE broker for an asset management company until 2012.

So many people are waiting for a rinse/repeat scenario of the bubble/crash from 2009, but what if that was really just a brief period of volatility in the context of the longer term uptrend, never to be repeated again in our lifetimes?

I search for something that will provide me a decent monthly profit and in an area where i believe i can trust pro forma to help me out when i plan to sell and 1031 into something bigger in a few years as long as we don't have a big crash (which some were saying could be imminent).i'm sure you've seen me post of the last duplex i purchased. 130k+100k in renovations

I intend to find value-add properties near transit lines to EWR, JFK, and LGA and BRRR into the AirBnB, VRBO, and Crash Pad ecosphere.

But the overall demand to live somewhere that has 17 available units for every 100 renters means to me that there is at least no true crash in demand on the horizon, regardless of what values do or don't do.

Thanks for the advice, It's a new state for me so I will be taking the crash course on North Carolina tenant law!

God forbid a car crashed into your property or it catches on fire, but do you have the ability to fly out there for a week and meet contractors, insurance agents, etc. if that happens?

If it was 2009 when the market was crashing, that might make more sense.Second, drill down on what that "valuation" was. 

Since the housing crash there are new laws concerning who can order appraisals, etc. so that there's some separation between brokers, lenders and appraisers, and you need to get familiar with those laws, in many states Brokers/agents are banned from ordreing appraisals.