The bubble is always 18 months away :)Here are similar pundits who predicted crashes, with excellent numbers and reasoning behind them, over the past five years. 2013: Denver Post: “Buyers Caught in a Price Squeeze”CNBC: “Housing Market Already Shows Signs of a New Bubble”2014: New York Times: “The Bubble Is Back”Fortune: “Why the Housing Recovery is over, in four charts”2015: CNBC (Again): “Housing today: A ‘bubble larger than 2006’”National Review: “We’ve inflated another bubble; count on the crash.”2016: CNN: “Housing bubble fears have returned”MarketWatch: “The Seeds of the Next Housing Crisis have already been planted”2017: Forbes: “58% of Homeowners Think The Housing Market is Set for a Correction”USA Today: “Hot Housing Market Could Cool in 2018”2018: Bloomberg: “This Rare Bear Who Called the Crash Warns Housing is Too Hot Again”I think that if you are afraid of a bubble, you'll never invest, and will surely lose.

I am thinking that I can just take over his loan, have him pay closing costs, and we will soak up the rehab costs.Okay, I'm almost out of cell range and want to get this posted.

To have control over who are neighbors are, and #2. as an investment opportunity.We are in the process of getting the funding lined up right now, and I have been trying to soak in as much as a can about landlording for a few weeks now.  

Right now, I'm trying to soak up as much information as I can.

I look forward to soaking up all I can from all of you and hope I may be able to be of assistance to some as well.

The "down payment" usually gets soaked into an "owner finance fee" (points) for a loan.

Keep asking, and soak it all in. 

I drained my seed capital and found myself draining my 401K to finish out my last unit.

@steveK, thanks for the links, love seeing these and will keep soaking in as much as I can.

Right now i am reading and searching everything possible, soaking up as much info as I can.