That's just me, I certainly don't take the position everybody needs to pause or that nobody is having success right now. 

I did most of my buying in 2019-2021 but paused as things were feeling frothy.

I know that if my girlfriend and I had needed to pony up $80 between us it would have given me pause for thought.

I am also a newbie wholesaler in the Richmond, Va area.We’ve actually paused our meetings and have joined another great mastermind that meets on the 1st Thursday of every month!

So I'm all ready to say, "Could be you are right but it's not happening." but I pause a little and he continues, "On the other hand, we've been going back and forth on this for 4 or 5 months already and no other offer has come in so maybe my client is not damaged that much by taking it off the market for 6 months."

That would give me great pause and I would want an expert to come and evaluate before moving forward on deal I just know if their is contamination it can be very expensive to correct the problem.

I'm interested in investing in Birmingham, but reading all these comments about long vacancies is giving me some pause.

That gives me pause.

Do you think a good plan would be to take on debt(real estate, personal mortgage, car loans) until I'm at 35%, then pause and do some debt payoffs, then go back up to 35% and rinse and repeat till I hit my goals?

The person running the meeting stepped out and the meeting hit a "pause".