That price included pumping, chemically treating, and ultimately collapsing the septic tank, directional boring 3/4 of the way around the house (.39 acre lot), two cleanouts installed, and he even removed a damaged cast iron stack pipe which had cracked in my foundation and updated it to PVC at no charge.I gave the overpriced $4,000 water equipment to a friend who had suffered from hard water and haven't had an issue with my new city water/sewer setup yet.Contact me if you'd like to chat further.

If you look through BP threads of "omg when is the crash going to happen" it's overwhelmingly people who haven't done a single deal yet.So unless you have some systemic economic collapse of multiple systems and industries, market cycles aren't a big deal.

the chances that the open market lets price's fall like they did in 08 to 2012 is remote.. you had a virtual collapse of flowing capital.. unless that happens again.. you will see the market doing what its doing stabilizing and coming back to historic norms which is about the .05% rule to 1.0 rule depending on market.  

At some point values will not move up year over year but there will not be a crash like 2007 because that was caused by easy credit then the collapse of the credit markets.

The pilot light is still lit and I can turn the furnace back on if I want.This is my first home - logically it makes sense to shut something off when not in use, but houses have so many nuances and I want to avoid a situation like "well since you shut off the furnace that cooled the insulation which then caused flaking which then clogged your air filter and yada yada your foundation broke and collapsed and there goes your investment."

Some of my rental properties have extensive damages outside, such as down trees, fence collapsed, sheds blown over and none of those are covered since they are not part of the main structures. 

Call me selfish, but a collapse in real estate would help me immensely.But I'm glad we didn't get a governor who wanted an income tax and obscene levels of obnoxious regulations.

Most of the people who answer always say yes this is the top, a collapse is imminent.  

@Logan Fast Give our country another couple of years being removed from the housing collapse, and I’m sure we’ll start to see ways for investors to start buying with no down payment again.

I just had newly installed closet shelves collapse on my tenants thanks to a poor contractor decision.