If the market crashes, that means we'll have more renters and more properties on the market at a discount, both of which work in my favor.

So don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of these people whose investment thesis is “buy the crash”, there’s no way to know when they’ll come.  

House hackers get a crash course in property managementI am truly passionate about house hacking and would love to connect and chat about this strategy.

All of that is awesome if you have the financial ability to weather (if and when it happens) a plateau, correction, or (not that I think it will) a crash. 

Looking for a good crash course - what resources are out there?

We sold it before the last crash.

We might have done better staying in stocks (too lazy to even try to figure that out) but buying using leverage in my market worked out well and we sleep better at night knowing another crash will not totally decimate our retirement portfolio.

You really need to look at why markets go bust and what this market has in common with the other times we have crashed. 

I'd rather get a nice double-digit return on a loan secured by real estate at really low LTV than continue to risk equity in a market I feel is likely to crash soon.The risk/return profile of that loan beats the stock market any day of the week.

They are becoming more and more common after lenders essentially stopped doing that after the market crash 10 years ago.