I just bought my first property, after 3 years of doing my researching, inching forward and sometimes losing momentum entirely. 

At the peak, an empty three-square-meter parcel (about 32 square feet) in a corner of the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo sold for $600,000, even though it was too small to build on.Plots only slightly larger gave birth to bizarre structures known as pencil buildings: tall, thin structures that often had just one small room per floor.As a result, Japan's property market in the 1980's was much more fragile than America's today, Professor Noguchi said.

@Omar Khan Love your goals hope you accomplish all, some day I'd like to get in to non residential commercial real estate, a life goal is to own a tall building, I don't have a specific measure or time line on that just yet but ever since I was very young when I see buildings that are taller than their foot print I think man I'd like to own one of those or I wonder who owns this place.   

Low risk- if it looks terrible, suck it up and put 1/4 inch drywall over the top. 

Now can they bring it in for a soft landing by inching Interest rates up?

If we only believed we could do what we're ACTUALLY competent to do, skyscrapers would be 3 stories tall and we'd be crossing rivers in barges still to this day. 

That unit is only 11x14x6 inches & our highest monthly electric bill was $48 (& $23 of that is the std monthly delivery charge) & that's with everything electric & a/c running. 

Example someone on the cell phone looking down seemingly unaware of their surroundings versus a person walking tall, head up, scanning the area as they walk. 

But the saying “give them an inch they take a mile” come true.

in this market to expect all your money back and to be positive 200 a month is a pretty tall order.people get 200 a month when they put 20 to 30% cash equity into the homes.. hard to have your cake and eat it to.. or you need to TAKE the risk of buying paper tigers..