Be very careful with this though, if you have shorter term financing like I do prepare for a down turn, I have no idea how much values fluctuate in your market, and if your note need to be renewed in a down market, you better have enough equity, or a pile of cash to bring in, I have seen many investors collapse because they harvested too much equity, I limit my portfolio to 40% LTV, im running about 35% on 21 properties right now, so i feel pretty safe, I was through the last crash and saw some guys i thought had it figured out crash and burn, just a word of warning. 

So even though it would be good for the investor, it wouldn't be good for the trader so he lets the trade collapse.

As the mountains collapse and the seas rise, how are you pick your good locations?

The vulnerable neighborhoods have the potential to collapse in value, and rents.  

Obviously prices don't increase uniformly each year, some years the price may go up, some years it may go down, but if we track the prices long enough, by definition the price will trend to the average unless there are outside factors involved (Detroit collapsing, or the shifting demographics away from the midwest and towards the coastal and southern regions). 

., where it was previously headquartered.High-pressure sales tactics were used to secure money for what were promised to be “low risk” and “conservative” investments, but in reality the funds were funneled to real estate owned by Shapiro, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.Woodbridge eventually became financially insolvent, the scheme began to unravel, and Shapiro in 2017 considering filing for bankruptcy, prosecutors said.Still, he, Roseman and Acevedo continued to sell the fraudulent investments without telling investors Woodbridge was on the verge of collapse, according to the indictment.

Are you sure you are willing to do that when the world looks like it will collapse?  

Just like how the Banks got greedy before the collapse in RE. 

If markets collapse, you're going to be stuck with a negative-cash flow property that is worth less than what you had purchased it for as well.Don't get hung up on cheap property.

----------------------------------The collapse of the real estate market intown Atlanta was hugely effected by the systematic mortgage fraud that was being done by groups of scammers.