But the cycle is basically... a certain percentage of buyers now will lag and buy high, or those that get in at good spots cash-out refi-high and then they turn sour on keeping up with payments when the their house ceases to be an ATM machine they can continue to withdraw from.

What is sometimes harder is the reserve requirements that increase as you add properties in your name - especially when you split properties and income between yourself and your wife to have more Fannie Mae loan slots available.  

This coud it be completed with machine learning yes, but it is the sales agents that push data toward the platform.

A lot of new investors are looking at numbers from 5+ years ago and wishing they started investing then.No one has a time machine, so you just need to look forward.Why can't you find a beat up property on the market for 90+ days or offmarket and buy it owner-occupied for best terms.

Be it stocks or real estate.If I want to gamble, I'll go to Vegas and loose quickly on the slots so I can have a cigar and enjoy a cocktail.Much success

Things from the past 10 years:Pinball machine restoring/playingbuilding websitesiRacingrestoring 72 corvettebuilt home theater from scratch, 120" screenrestored super chexx bubble hockeymaking udemy classesbuilt a home basketball gymmade a youtube channellots of video games, currently playing a lot of League of Legendslot of coaching youth sports (soccer, basketball, baseball, and football)3d printinglearned guitar till I had wrist surgeryAll over the map of randomness. 

That is all but never talked about, the burn-rate of $cash$ to run a proficient lead-machine, in generation, filtration, storage, development, conversion.

You cannot find the deals they were purchasing unless you have a time machine

Remember when we'd take the tubes to the local drug store and test them in the machine?

Or any other number of BP members that would love to let you drive the machine and they bring the capital.