Real estate always goes in cycles, and if you can buy at the bottom of a cycle, it's a good thing.

After each cycle of quarterly activity, all partners shall meet to discuss strategic portfolio planning and needs for capital liquidity.

This may only happen in 1 percent of the cases, but it will take a lot of your clock cycles and energy to defend things if you get a demand letter prior to a formal suit.

Retirement accounts are seen as semi-liquid therefore you can only count it at 50-80% during underwriting.5) Did I mention that 401k investment options suck and there are hidden fees in there.6) The 2008 pullback was 7 years ago and market cycles typically are 8-12 years.

Vicious freaking cycle, but because I have a Happy Wife; lets just say, my life ain't unhappy! 

Shawn Ackerman because in doing my research with my partner we found that Jersey (and specifically the Newark area) is in the stage of its cycle where its growing, and as such the houses we get now are somewhat cheap (and definetely cheaper than NY houses) and they will appreciate well in the years to come.

Economies have many cycles & to not have the wisdom to think that it can't or won't happen again is foolish.  

Although  appreciation usually happens in spurts in a couple of years during the cycle (in my markets usually about every 10 years) it generally smooths out to be the same EVERY decade. 

Breaking the cycle of poverty and poor financial decisions is a hard road to travel and few make the journey.I'm not sure what type of competitive advantage you would realistically be able to build.

And they will complain that the washer did not rinse it all out and it may take 2 or 3 more cycles to clean the machine out.