So what we need to do apparently is go in the garage, pick up a hammer and repeatedly smash it into our skull, do some tide pod challenges, completely remove ourselves from actually working in RE, and THEN we will "get it" on how a crash, 50% reductions is "gonna happen any day"........ 

always hammered home the point that the biggest risk should be the risk of inflation. 

I spend a good deal of time managing my business but I learn new things all the time, and get some good exercise when I swing my hammer.

My dad did very well at one point when I was still a youngster, and I have fond memories at eight of "helping" him renovate a property by gleefully taking his instructions to heart and using a hammer to take down old plaster and drywall from an investment property in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in the late 1970s when it was a very distressed neighborhood and not the more upscale and renowned neighborhood it is today.  

If someone would hammer me back with something funny, I would laugh, but Bros don't do that.

Scottsdale and Phoenix got hammered in the last recession.

Just because I’m not looking to pick up a hammer doesn’t mean I’m not working.

And then worked hard to help them with sellers that were filing complaints at the AG's office.. etc.. they made it through but they got hammered.. there were others in our market that did the same thing and one even got jail time.

I don't swing a hammer.

You could even do the coursework online or take advantage of accelerated formats that hammer out a 3 credit class in just few weekends.