I am quite sure a bank is going to want the players to have a lot of experience in the space... very good balance sheet.. and probably have the land paid for in cash.. as their skin in the game.. with those ingredients you can get this done. 

From what I understand of the process, the key ingredient is getting a title company involved. 

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

But, before doing so, ensure that you have the ingredients to be successful and it begins with getting REI educated.Don't get bogged down with analysis paralysis.

As such I consider Action to be a key ingredient to success.

So I don't think the ingredients are in place for a flood of distressed inventory like 2008.  

Having an end game , understanding the timing of ins and outs, knowing the players and the rules are all necessary ingredients to minimize risk and know that you have a strategy that will succeed.IMO any one that sees the stock market as a crap shoot should stay a way from it.

BUT beware,,,it will kill underlying roots of desirable trees also.It is a great lawn broadleaf control also,with above limitations of killing desireable trees underlying roots,,,the weed B gone is basicly a 2-4-D product which knocks them back also,,,but NOT as toxic to underlying good tree roots The 'CUT" sapling treatment MAY be one way around this,,but the active ingredient of it 'piclorin'(sp) is death on wheels for trees.

There are already some ingredients suggest it will not stay that way very long.Bay Area: Tech job growth has rapidly decelerated- Even with looming layoffs, tech still drives region’s economyBelow is a summary of all jobs including San Francisco, Peninsula and Santa Clara County including most of SiliconValley:In 2017 it was Verizon merged with Yahoo that resulted in plant closing and employees get booted out including Yahoo’s CEO who would like to stay but was told otherwise.

A freeze in credit is a key ingredient to a real estate crash.So what we may experience is a transition to a "buyer's market."