Or you need extra cash sitting on the sidelines to help if your rent up phase takes longer, or it you get into a Price war with deeper pocket companies.a. 

The uncertainty around potential policy changes related to housing, taxes, and economic strategies has already caused some investors to wait on the sidelines.

I'm tired of sitting on the sidelines and feel I've started to fall into the "analysis-paralysis" trap I hear so much about.

So in the short term RE investors are left on the sidelines… but BRRRR isn’t dead… it’s just on the sidelines too waiting for conditions to improve to the point where there is cash flow available after the refi.  

We are in a supply shortage with high demand BUT there has been a lot of demand on the sideline waiting for rates to fall.

It seems like I have sidelined myself with this one purchase.

As a sideline to a regular local self-managing small landlord in my position, oh, very much so.Anyway, Steve, I'll send you a connection request.

Each one tells me that they are looking to tap into equity while values are still high and many of them are sitting on the sidelines with their cash out proceeds waiting for good deals to start popping up. 

Absolutely.With this mindset, you move past sitting on the sidelines out of fear—which is probably why you're asking in the first place.As someone who used to think the same way, I’d say face the fear, take the risk, and buy the property.

It could take many years, don't be like the "investors" I know who have been sitting on the sidelines since 2016 waiting for a market crash that never came.