There are still a lot of buyers out there looking even with the world spinning in other directions.

Spoke with real estate agents in the area.After 18 months of just spinning my wheels, I still hadn't made an offer an a single property.

You either pay the tax or take a spin of the wheel. 

But even there, February’s median closing price of $337,250 is up 12.8% on the year.What might calm the frenzy of what observers considered an already overvalued market spinning off 20% plus annual home price gains?

This was the first year I filed with two LLCs one a partnership and one an SCORP in addition to our personal taxes and my head is spinning.

My head spins when I hear this. 

I just read the book on investing in real estate with low and no money down and my mind has been spinning, thinking about creative financing!

Be careful of spinning your wheels and wasting time - we have to be as efficient as possible to win at this game!

Your post has helped me realize that we all have moments that we just spin the tires and feel like we aren't moving forward.

@Kristen Daniel, It looks like you'll be wanting to do a partial 1031 so you can start to spin off another branch to your investing - 1031 into another buy and hold, and some taxable cash that you'll  use in your proposed JV for flipping.That's a great model.