@Kenneth Donaghy made some great points and there are countless individuals who waited for "a deal" and ended up not buying and being completed priced out of the market with simultaneous price and interest rate escalation. 

To explain what I see is a lot of potential investors and investors with limited exposure go down a rabbit hole and spend countless dollars they do not have because someone is trying to sell asset protection to them.  

Hey mate,Future predictions are solid for real estate IMO over the coming years.Lot's of pent up demand waiting for the Fed.Many folks with locked in low interest rates aren't selling, and many wannabe buyers can't get the desired loan amounts due to high interest rates.So we are in a stale mate for now.If Fed loosens grip 3rd or 4th quarter, I feel the flood gates might open and activity starts again.I don't believe the market will decline if interest rates are cut, quite on the contrary.Micro market trends are very different to macro.Online stats/demographics don't reveal what happens from a micro market standpoint.I could give countless examples of zip codes in Ohio experiencing population growth, gentrification and appreciation.The overall population might be declining but again, on a micro level some pockets are booming.Thanks and much success

I am on countless FB groups, social media, etc and it is a slow process.

. :)Hi Michael,I've spent a countless hours researching this (including reading all your cost seg related posts) as I'm in the exact similar situation and have talked to 2 CPAs and gotten contradictory feedback.

I have a background and education in Construction Engineering and worked in commercial construction for the better part of a decade while I was investing in residential real estate on the side.I've been in brokerage as a real estate advisor for the past 4+ years full time and I specialize in 2-4 unit residential multifamily which accounts for half of what I do (about 2 or 3 multifamily deals a month) and the other half consist of single family homes and condos.I grew up in San Diego and its all I know, I got my undergrad in Construction Engineering and Graduate degree in Business locally also.I am a big fan of starting off investing locally with low money down and that is how I personally started myself...I read a ton of books and listened to countless hours of podcasts but all the magic happened when I stopped reading and listening and started taking action.Welcome and feel free to send me a private message if you want to chat.

I buy directly from the owner as I don't spend countless weeks trying to make retail MLS deals into wholesale deals.

But that fact that every agent I know always starts at 6% seems a bit odd, and for the brief period I was a licensed agent, the fact that my brokerage based their commission splits and amounts due on the 6% commission (even if I negotiated a lower split with my clients) pretty much proves the case and the reason it was settled is because the NAR knows there was countless evidence to show a broad collusion.But, I think it is about time that buyers pay for their own representatives.  

.; many RE investors have comparatively longer time horizons, and I would assume that most RE investors have a lower tolerance for risk).I'm a RE investor, and don't have any crypto, but I have plenty of friends who hold a lot of crypto, and we've discussed crypto endlessly...At the risk of sounding like a luddite, even after years of discussions and reading countless articles, I still don't feel like I have a good understanding of crypto.  ...and frankly, I'm skeptical of people who claim to have a thorough understanding of it (yet, there are no shortage of self-proclaimed "experts" who describe crypto with the confidence of someone predicting a sunrise!)

They can also refuse to move out and cause countless other issues, as some tenants do.