I think many people benefit from the minutiae of understanding as they ascend the higher ranks of wealth.

Could you please check your contract and share with us some blurbs in the warranty and disclaimer sections of the report re the limitations of the inspections...As it pertains to your situation I cannot tell you how many crawl spaces I go into where others would never venture into (because the inspector was to large and the opening to small) or that he pulled "that is a confined space and I am not certified nor have the safety equipment to enter such a space" and how many roofs I ascended to where even the pigeons fear to nest...

For a lot of these folks they can fall off a cliff just as fast as they ascended to the mountain top.

Many clients will add a clause for a share of the profit, as well as a guaranteed interest rate.Disqualified persons include family ascendants and descendants ,spouse, parents, children, business partners, fiduciaries, etc—reference IRS publication 590 A&B as well as IRC 4975.Thank youCarl

They lend that out to borrowers on home loans, equity credit lines and credits cards (in order of ascending interest rates) for between 3% and 29.9% or more. 

For real estate to "fail" people would need to either (a)no longer need shelter (b)God keeps making more land as Real Estates finite supply locks it's ascending value per unit (c) people stop having children making descending population year over year, generation over generation, consistently Fact is land and real estate is finite, and there is continuously more people, that means need is always ascending.

Now, this means you will need to look for more off market deals and create the right relationships to find said deals however, buying in strong or ascending markets should be the goal.

Once upon a time 10% was standard here ... but with the "forever ascending" real estate prices most Canadian markets have witnessed over the past two decades, deposits as a percentage of price tag have dropped dramatically.I disagree with @Arlan Potter, 10% is not way too much.  

As the auction prices ascended the auctioneer had this habit of increasing the bid spreads, from $1,000, to $5,000 to $10,000 etc. 

The West Coast cities were two of several markets with favorable supply-and-demand balances and hiring momentum that made major moves to ascend to the top spots in M&M's multifamily investment forecast.