I stated my career in real estate WATCHING prices skyrocket from the sidelines in 2008-2012.

Are you sitting on the sidelines and waiting for the perfect time to buy?

You may not think a crash will happen, but when investors like yourself are choosing to stay on the sidelines and rookie investors are rushing to into real estate investment, it sounds like more than a correction is coming. 

There are those who do, and those that criticize those that do.Always easier to sit in the sideline and criticize than to be the one making and implementing those decisions.

Most of this activity was in minority areas.had a big chapter on this on my Mortgage banker CE this month... and those loans are defiantly not coming back.. ergo the shift in many cities to far more rentals than homeownership because you have taken a huge swath of what was a potential borrower and put them on the side lines they will not be able to borrow.. unless they make major changes in their credit and incomes which simply does not happen.. they will be life long renters and rental neighborhoods will forever more be rental neighborhoods were the values will only be determined by what an investor is willing to pay for a certain cash flow..

If you try and time the market perfectly you may sit on the sidelines for years with nothing to show.

I would rather sit on the sidelines most of the time and do the one.

Keep the cash on hand that you need to run your life and your business, but cash on the sidelines is not growing.

So I’m comparing it to sitting on sidelines for 2 years losing value to my cash from inflation or earning money not on an asset I know will be up in 25 years years.Granted economically we have a ton of factors.

You can't sit on the sidelines and wait until the once-in-a-lifetime 20-40% drop.