Don’t sit on the sidelines, just get smarter.

Assuming a stock market downturn in the next 6-18 months with attendant economic effects (rising unemployment, declining interest rates, dip in home values), is anyone waiting on the sidelines and holding cash to either pounce on RE and/stocks when they drop 5-20%?

Put everything on the sideline.  

You are sitting on the side line waiting for the right opportunity.

Recently, I became convicted that I should introduce myself to the community rather than just soaking up information on the sidelines.

I want to inspire others to get off the sideline, and see their problem, and fix it!!

I've seen what be short of money can do to families - the stress even more than the doing without - so I feel like it's good to stop once in a while and think about how fortunate we are that there is nothing like that standing in the way of our being happy.I'm also thankful about 2010 being the year that we got off the sidelines and got our first couple of properties - we made the step from thinking about/preparing/wishing for our dreams and actually started working on them.

Many watch from the sidelines but never get into the game.

You'll always wish you started sooner so don't get stuck on the side lines or in analysis paralysis. 

So now, with market holding, as math dictated it would, NORMAL seasonal activity happening as it historically always has, looks to those sitting sideline delaying for there media-regurgitated crash, as a market back into bull-run possibly.