worrying about if/when the market will crash wont prevent it from crashing. prepare for the worst but still pray for the best while advancing towards your goals.take a look at the 5 year graph for real estate prices and the S&P 500. yeah, it definitely crashed a few times. but it's wild cause if you look at the charts from left to right, they always bounce back. almost like these things ultimately work themselves out and you're better think time in market than timing the market. timing the market is a fools errand and something even Warren Buffett laughs at. if the oracle of Omaha can't predict the market (stocks or real estate) why do we bother? 

All you need to do is educate yourself and connect with people who are doing what you want to do, which is precisely what you're doing by reading and participating in this thread.

So you're not really getting a net discount, until you re-fi but then you're charting into new territories and there's no guarantees.

Hi,I have been a forever student in RE and I live in central Jersey (Middlesex county to be more precise). 

You might not be able to hit the 1% rule precisely but in these areas they tend to be safer investments that are more consistent over time.

SFR are valued based on comps, but Zillow is not yet sophisticated enough to do this with absolute precision.

I have my roommates agree to a rotating chore chart that is built into the lease.

Join me in realizing your property aspirations with precision and profitability. 

There is a time and place for that, but I try to be more precise and dismantle rather than demolish.

Closed sales, however, were down about 8% from the year prior.Overall, the Austin real estate market looks relatively stable and poised to exhibit its typical seasonable behavior as we head into the spring/summer selling season, where more buyers enter the market and more owners aim to list their properties.Here are the full stats for Austin and the greater metro:Here’s a look at the median single-family home price in Austin over the previous year:For broader context, here’s the same chart, but now pulling in the past 10 years:Buyers will be happy to hear that, over the past few months, single-family homes in Austin have sold for a median 93% of their original listing price.