Starting with $50,000 and house hacking, to be honest, that sounds overly optimistic, which is admittedly not something I like saying.

Overall we are optimistic on the Fresno market for long term holds.  

I ended up with my second option (Investing in a syndication) because I couldn't find a property myself that I felt optimistic about during the cap rate crunch.

Great book is on this is "The Price of Tomorrow" I think the Author Jeffery Booth makes a solid case (probably much to optimistic) for the technologists. 

Pretty good, everyone throughout the process was responsive, even with getting the appraisal done around the thanksgiving holiday, I’m cautiously optimistic about using them again given what occurred in the first experience.

One of my oldest friends, a laid back optimist, told me I was “totally” capable of pulling it off.

LTV estimates are sometimes overly optimistic, so many loans that don't get paid off by the borrower become worth very little.

Since we are not looking for something too fancy, I am optimistic that we'll manage to find a place we like that doesn't break the bank.

As a bookkeeper I see many clients be overly optimistic and not set reserves for this

Thats more like a temperature check on how optimistic everyone feels right now.Any long term prognosis can only rely on supply and demand projections.