We did it before the real estate crash in 1986, and I lost touch with him till 1993, when I was investing in REO's and he was the title company closer.

Sure, we can make educated guesses, but these days there are about as many valid arguments predicting a market crash as there are valid arguments for flattening, as there are valid arguments predicting continued growth.What's your plan if property values flatten (or go down), especially at the moment that you're trying to refinance the property?

Is Manhattan headed for a housing crash?

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These tenants stay for years and when the economy crashes, these cheaper properties do well.

We bought our house in the middle of the 2008 crash.

@Scott Trench man, this sounds like the Housing Crash all over again! 

Now, however, foreclosures are far and few between and not nearly as fat a market as they were back during the crash.

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I was actually in a similar position as you looking for property at the height of the last cycle (2006ish) ... fortunately I did NOT relax my investment standards and as result did NOT buy at that time ... when the market crashed, though, I was already educated on both REI and the local market from my search, and I happened to be sitting on a pile of cash that I'd been saving to invest.