I can see that coming sometime in the not too distant future . . .

I do need to get my feet wet with at least one rental property in the not too distant future, and if things go well with that I could certainly see myself acquiring more properties down the road. 

While I do think that foreclosures will increase again sometime in the no-to-distant future, I think this piece was presented in an over-hyped manner.

I know many of us hope to find ourselves in a similar situation in the not to distant future.  

I live in Traverse City in northern MI.My wife and I currently own a large SF home which is our personal residence and a small cottage an hour away which we used for vacations (her family lives nearby) and plan to turn into a short-term vacation rental in the not-too-distant future.I have been looking into different types of real-estate investment recently.

Hey everyone,I am looking to partner up with a friend I graduated with who is also interested in RE. We want to start with a smaller multi-family property and gradually move into large apartment complexes. He is worki...

But I am seeing it is distant from schools, about 5 miles.

In that case, every investor could be a passive investor and we would only need a good team working for us.I personally went to look at properties in distant cities and states like Idaho, Arizona, Ohio, Massachusetts, Florida, California, Oregon, Texas and while real estate agents and brokers always claimed the properties were goldmines the properties were almost always undesirable.

Her main point with this is that capital gains taxes are extremely low right now and no one knows what they'll be in the distant future whenever we decide to pay the taxes on the final sale of whatever property we are holding.  

@Thomas Seay is in the middle of one of the longest running and hottest markets around AND holding 3 winning tickets that most investors could never touch.When the market wobbles, is when true investors really need to analyze the nuances of their individual market, and not base decisions on anecdotal observations of empty windows and far away dead projects from a distant past.I stand by my original recommendation that the OP, hold his properties, refinance and get finances in place for when the market does take a dip.