I know some BPers are buying now but like a lot of y'all, I'm stacking cash and am looking for deals (I haven't bought a property in roughly 11 months).
I wanted to get concrete as to what numbers I'm going to consi...

Those that decided to opt out of homeownership obviously became renters.Consider the following decade-based totals for single-family home construction:1960s: 9.3 million starts1970s: 11.4 million starts1980s: 9.9 million starts1990s: 11.0 million starts2000s: 12.3 million starts2010s: 6.8 million startsIt's a good question though why a lot of sellers are choosing to stay on the sidelines when it appears houses are selling at a premium nationwide.

Sitting on the sidelines doesn't make you money, it just makes the gains you could have had more apparent.

Therefore, instead of making plans to buy land and build, I'm looking to finally start investing in real estate after 1 year of sitting on the sidelines!

I'm tired of sitting on the sidelines.

Unfortunately for those sidelined buyers, there’s more bad news.

So, the deal has to make enough economic sense where I know the return annually is good enough that even if price of the property slightly dips you are still banking monthly.Sometimes sitting on the sideline isn’t bad.

Invest in good commercial RE or be an sideline investor.

But I am finally ready to stop being on the sidelines and actually start investing.

More risk adverse investors seem to be making these deals work...and ultimately are getting rewarded with appreciation while more sound/by the book investors are sitting on the sidelines.