Hi BP People,I'm a Californian with a background in finance(stocks) who just recently caught the REI bug. 

There are three different “memberships” you can join, depending on the number of transactions you predict you will do.

but then we look at the stock market at it just roared up a bunch in the last two weeks.. 

For any number of reasons, people have been predicting it going back to 2015 from what I have seen.

I know as I have grown that I am pivoting from doing heavy rehabs to ground up.. easier to manage and more predictable cost wise.. 

Over the next year, Zillow predicts an additional 7% increase.From 2010 to 2016 per capita income growth (not adjusted for inflation) in the Columbus metro area was 25% versus 21% in Cincinnati, 21% in Cleveland, and 22% in the United States as a whole.I help a lot of investor build rental portfolios here in Columbus Ohio 2-4 family rentals and a few commercial 5+ unit rentals buy and hold.

We’ve got about 30k liquid cash to invest and could potentially double/triple that as needed by selling some company stock (havent done that yet because the stock is doing well but could be convinced for the right deal).

My plan for most of the money is to invest it for retirement in stocks and bond funds.  

The question is: should we wait a little bit more for prices to drop a little and meanwhile invest in stocks or pull the trigger and buy a house? 

And if as predicted interest rates rising to near 5% it will wipe out most gains of appreciation come over the next 12 months or so.