So even in 2 big cities, adjacent one to another, with the exact same demographic issues, the trends can be opposite making predictions extremely unreliable regarding the final outcome.

The Houston market has been incredibly strong and diverse - and has flooded before with no dire residual effects - I predict the same, Houston will rebuild and continue its growth.

Are some experienced investors reading this and predicting failure due to an unexpected maintenance issue, or failure to manage my manager?

I don't pretend to be able to predict the future as to property values.

you simply can't predict whats going to happen in the rental business. and anyone who thinks running or landlording is hands 0ff and passive I can flat tell you ..

I know you can look at trends and study them to make predictions.

My prediction is that the purchase will be higher than the listing price.  

If I stand correct they predicting 1-2 years for the RE market to stand back on his feet and around 10 billion dollar in mortgages that people gonna have problem to pay now= tax delinquents = opportunities .

He also invests his own money based on his predictions, so that always gives me more confidence in someone. 

Has he gone way over budget on what he had originally predicted?