Ultimately it's what is the return you are getting versus risk,capital deployed, and what is the timeline and headache to achieve it?        

Sometimes that active look means you find out your rentals haven't been doing as well as you thought, but at least you're armed with the knowledge to re-deploy the equity.

He has made few deals (not good ones) in 1Q2018 but solely to deploy his earned capital to save his company from income tax.

Exactly,...the price will fall if everyone is a seller at the same time.So everyone has some attechment to the "hold on to cash for the crash" theory, but if the world is full of investors trying to deploy capital during the next recession, prices WON'T GO DOWN! 

I got into real estate when I rented my house out while I was deployed, I ended up selling for a profit and was hooked. 

Hey everyone, I'm new to real estate investing and currently have a house that has doubled in value since I bought it. my current goal is to buy 5 houses after I get back from deployment and I was thinking about taking a HELOC on that house to pay for down payments on the houses.

Instead of buying an expensive sports car after every deployment, invest the money into multifamily real estate. 

There are always people retiring, transferring, and deploying. 

Generally speaking, the higher the rate of return and the longer the funds will be deployed prior to distribution, the more advantageous the Roth option will be.

I have one advice for you: if you have some capital to deploy in marketing activities to get leads and the patience to wait for over a year or even two to make money, then wholesale.