I guess I would have to speak to someone who knew the rental market before the crash in the respective city I was interested in purchasing. 

I am interested in taking real estate as a career but am scared that the market can crash at any time.

Lane it won't be me on the Detroit band wagon I did 200 plus loans there in 05ish and got out before the crash..

I moved here a few years ago from Harrisburg, PA where I purchased my first home just in time to see property values come crashing down!  

Some 80% of builders / developers went under in the crash and are only now ramping back up.

Hello, My brother says he had a friend who used leverage to buy a bunch of houses, and after the housing market crashed in 2008, the banks demanded more cash from him due to the LTV being out of whack.

Even in today's aftermath of the housing crash banks will loan you more money than you want to borrow) Put your 3.5% down and save the rest for vacancies and operating expenses.  

I am using Firefox on both devices, IExplorer crashed months ago and wont relaunch. 

But I suffered through the last crash and did a lot of "how did this happen" thinking.

I am from Northern Virginia, I bought my first rental property when the market crashed a few years back with the help of my mom.