A lot of this had to do with the pure volume of data - especially, when you are trying to predict or identify rare events.

I always preface my doom and gloom commentary with the fact that I have not been right on a single economic prediction yet. 

If I could predict economic outcomes, I wouldn't need to be posting on BP!

No one can predict for sure what the market will do. 

While I don't believe the technology is there quite yet, I predict that in the next 50 years the tech will be there to live in space.Among the growing problems on Earth, climate change, population explosion, and international policy, life might not be sustainable for humans.

The "experts" are predicting an eviction apocalypse.

Predicting future cap rates is an art and one of the driving forces behind syndication deals, funds, and new construction going on in this market.

On the road to getting an NPN to reperform, things are not always predictable but when you buy 1st mortgages as I do and know how to buy well, you generally always have multiple good exit strategies.  

I am predicting the interest rates to rise further before they drop which will directly reduce the prices of houses. 

There is no way to predict when a toilet will break or a garbage disposal will go out or when a tenant will put a hole in the wall.