You don’t have to ride the stock market down.You also conveniently forget the fact that many stock buyers are “buy and hold” buyers just as much as property buyers are. 

Since the the housing market has appreciated so rapidly over the last few years, the wholesale business margins have gotten very thin and will continue to get thinner within the next year or two.If you want to start wholesaling properties with a lot of meat on the bone (profits), I would suggest looking East and Inland towards some of the areas where the affordable housing has shifted to such as Inland Empire, High Desert, Coachella Valley and any other markets that always tend to ride on the coattails of the Metro markets such as Los Angeles. 

Yes, it has been a bumpy ride but the result is not so bad. 

Tons of hiking, rafting, horseback riding and on and on.

I live 20 minutes from my properties , I ride by them frequently

A service call I have to pay for, this time for nothing.I have one agent telling me to do everything to get rid of him to avoid months of issues and another agent telling me to ride out the lease and then refuse to renew.

I just saw this video. This guys is a genius 

I think it's smart to buy down now... and let it ride.

My two businesses are gameified, and I am just as excited sometimes as I was as a child when I was riding my bike to buy used computer parts using my friends piggybank money (my first OPM lol) and then sell a working computer for a profit!

Keep all accounts with the same bank.Good luck on your journey, it's a fun ride!