Well you are entitled to your opinion John, we shall see about my future customer service success as all my bookings start in December, but anyone who has been unpleasant to me seems to believe they have some crystal ball and that this message board is being conflated with real life.

We may be a week away from a crash, we may be a decade away from it, its always hard to say.

That property was sold as a result of the crash, and now the Berkeley/West Highland areas are flourishing.I am interested in real estate and commercial investing. 

My backgroundI've been investing in SFRs in my local market since the 2009 crash.

Contractors took one of the biggest hits of any profession during the last crash and the ones that survived have barely made it so.

I bought my first property in 2014 in the peak of our local market where everything was going extremely fast and I ended up paying 16k over asking. 2 months later the oil and gas market, which drives the growth locally, completely crashed.

I don't mind using leverage to get there but whatever you do don't be over leveraged before a crash in the economy.

You can grow faster using leverage, but having free and clear properties means a lot less stress if anything were to happen..vacany, market crash, etc.

Well there is a lot of talk about a crash coming in real estate.

I'm glad our markets are a bit more civilized. Lol**************************************************************************************Fresh Reports Of Real Estate Rage Signal Turn In Chinese Housing Market ...