Best way to prevent doing a bad deal or an impulse buy, is to know someone you can use as a sounding board or another set of eyes for anything you might be considering.If you want, send me a PM with your buying criteria and we might be able to help source you a property. 

Next time resist the impulse to speak without all the facts.

Sometimes the percieved supply and or demand is created by the media which gives you the upturns in a down market or the downturns in an up market.These percieved demand and supply impulses are temporary in most cases.But do affect the actual prices and the average prices.

It's OK to be impatient & at 50 who cares...BUTnever be too impulsive that's when you make mistakes.NY is a tough mkt but it made us a LOT of money.Good luck

The salesman "Mastery Coach" really knows how to connect with you on a personal level and tap into that emotional impulsive spending side of you.  

The decision of many to quit is so often impulsive -- they do it with a view to short term relief and pleasure (i.e. to "sit on a beach", which sounds horrific to me). 

This shouldn't be an impulse buy.

If you can’t handle the examples you and I described in our posts (drug dealers in lawn chairs, kids throwing their pit bull’s feces onto your porch, etc), don’t invest on that house or that block.I am against someone looking at ultra low prices on Zillow or Trulia in Detroit or Cleveland, not know anything about the block/street, and impulsively buying it anyway.

My first impulse is if you can get it for $100k and rent it for $1600, then it seems like a good deal on the surface.

And young men are impulsive, as I was and sometimes don't make wise decisions.