While all you really needed back then was a pulse to buy a house, now, in addition to tightened lending standards, we are also faced with a dramatically shifting economic backdrop.

That way if you chose to sell and the numbers were too low you could shift gears to renting and still be making profit versus subsidizing the monthly mortgage.

I‘m considering to shift gears and continue saving but instead really educate myself and take the plunge to get my feet wet with long distance BRRRR.

As we all know the market has shifted a great deal over the last 6+ months. 

I think ill shift my main focus to off market but ill still keep my eye out on MLS.

However, now that things have shifted, it seems that even though it's good time to buy funds when the market is low, I feel like I can get more out of having cash on hand in the short term. 

Grant has long broadcast his belief of a shifting paradigm of younger generations engaging in perpetual renting, vs home ownership.

It's also a tectonic shift if you own and live in a SFH.

I have chains in Colorado and Chicago under the Creative Density and Second Shift brand.

I would also like assistance with contracts and title reports, etc as shifting through legal jargon is not my strength-- and I don't want my ignorance to ever land me in hot water legally.