It looks like automatic and says I need to slow down sending PMs.  

I play the market all the time but I am young and far from wealthy so I'm a gambler and stick to options and go in and out very fast i have gone in and out of higher and lower tax brackets over night.... the market could crash this year and many say we are in for an earnings recession and in my view it could be any day bc if you just google S&P500 and look at the chart in max view you will see from as far back as it will show up up up up down down up up up up down down up up up up etc...... we are due for a major correction soon although i think markets will rally some more this year and this coming earnings will generally be poor but not as poor as predicted so the market will be looking good and the FED will raise rates at the end of the summer than yea after the holidays things will be super slow higher rates higher costs and with the oil prices and political movements more volatile than shares of tesla maybe yea a big crash and some people will lose it all while some people will be buying it all waiting for the next upswing its the cycle of life...Craziest thing i ever read about the stock market was that SEC halted trading on a bunch of medical marijuana stocks that were trading on the OTC market and i said WAIT WTF theres public pot corps lol i mean who would buy a medical marijuana stock... forget cooking the books what happens when the DEA burns the books so how does that work.... so aslong as there are people dumb enough to invest publicly in a company that is operating in a risky federally illegal business than yea the stock market can crash any day of the week for just about any reason...

The process of getting the money out of the equity I build has slowed significantly, and I have lost confidence they will continue to provide the loans I seek.I feel I am at a turning point in the business because I have built it quickly and now wonder if I should be evaluating other potential sources of borrowing.  

I thought it would slow down, but it seems to be picking up pace through January.  

But business didn't slow up AT ALL.

Take it slow, get educated ... it's very easy to make costly mistakes in this business.

San Jose and Oakland show similar slow growth in recent months.So what’s the moral of the story?

The appraiser was super slow to follow through.  

Tangentially, I'm actually kind of surprised that the scientific consensus that magnitude 8 or 9 earthquake is definitely coming for Portland and Seattle in the next 50 years hasn't slowed down development sales, even though many of the beautiful old houses in Portland aren't even eligible for earthquake insurance.

My local market is a low-risk, good return market but has slow on-market timelines - perfect for you to play the "live in it 2 years" tax game.