Right now with the Fed stepping on the brakes with high interest rates the market is saying "now is not the best time to be buying".

It can be a very good strategy, @John E Brake.

They put the brakes on heavy risk taking.

Pumping the brakes on real estate content allowed me to feel more refreshed on a day-to-day basis, and thus work much more efficiently.  

So my wife and I were about to submit an offer on a property in a great neighborhood - Morningside/East English - in Detroit.  We had two different HMLs lined up to do the deal and we were about to submit an offer whe...

I’m assuming your preferences in investing and risk tolerance, but if you like your jobs, your pace is comfortable, and no sense of urgency to scale massively, then you have the blessing of pumping the brakes and waiting.

I know the high rates and high prices of the properties really make the numbers to work for any strategy these days putting hard brake on investment activity.

When I was a new agent real estate was not new to me, I had been an investor for 10 years and my father was a contractor/home builder, but I was new to being an agent and my real estate board had a guest speaker, one of the top agents in California.I was floored, the guy was short, pudgy, balding young, and was so introverted he about had a mental brake down when he had to string two words together with a stranger and he sent me on the right path when he could muster enough inner strength to blurt out see the people, talk to the people, and see and talk to them again and again.Other agents when we were walking out were commenting what a waste of time but they were just given golden advice and instead of joining them at the bar I went back to the office and just sat at my desk thinking about this guy and after a few hours I went out and bought some three by five cards and file boxes for them and being born on a farm I said to myself I am going to farm people and thanks to another agent who I call my mentor that other agents avoided because of his long stories, he became and agent in 1909, and those stories and his opinions were pure gold. 

Finally we got a possession of that unit back,  and found out the There were brake-ins in the unit by some teens from the neighborhood while the unit was vacant.

With cash flow around $1000 this would take 38 months to brake even.