The market since then has crashed and started its rise again.

I would also guess that at some point you will see a California style property/rental market crash.

NOw if your in small counties this can be different but if your in a major metro area and a county in said metro area.. its a ton of work.I bought a few sales in the ft meyer area back in the crash 09... ( wish I had moved there and set up shop) but I used a service.. which basically means we split profit with the guys that did all the leg work. 

I became really interested in real estate investing after the housing market crashed in 2008.

The question is, In our current market, most of the analyst and market research companies I've come across are forecasting a "dip" or "crash", in the housing market sometime next year in the springtime.

As long as you don't try to time the market or care about when the market "crashes" you will just set it and forget it. 

The danger in this is if the market crashed for a bit and you no longer had the equity to pull or sell for a time.

As someone who raises capital for a select few syndications, I often get questions around rising interest rates, inflation, will the market crash, etc?

But people have gotten rich while other people have waited for a crash. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/...its discussed here that exponential jumps is key to building the cash flow and financial freedom, if you have, say 300k liquid, how many jumps should one make to jump levels, I have flipped properties in the past, but never really held because I got hit by the 08 Crash.