Were any of you in the RE game during 07-08 crisis?

I keep seeing news stories about the affordable housing crisis, and I'd like your opinions on that issue, specifically as it relates to Houston and the surrounding area.

He had some financial problems during the housing crisis and walked away from the property.

Not unless there's another overall national financial crisis again.  

When you have a personal crisis a bigger cushion with the mortgage payment can be helpful.

You don’t know if you can get tenants in there long term or if they’ll stay ,you don’t know if the house will appreciate or if a national crisis will plummet its value for the next 8 years you don’t know if or what terms you can refinance the property down the road .

Am I the only one that still owns property from the mid-2000 Housing crisis/bubble?

Bernanke urged using more taxpayer funds for new efforts to prevent home foreclosures, saying the private sector is incapable of coping with the crisis on its own.

This place is a competitive shark tank, margins are razor thin, and price appreciation has been insane since the crisis.

The good ones don't need my unsteady work and I don't have enough work to bring it in house.When multiple units are empty or in crisis at the same time.Waiting and wondering and not being in control when tenants are in crisis.