I've seen (known) smart investors who got clocked in C-/D plays and I've seen OOS investor property in Raleigh that ended up abandoned and destroyed.

it doesn't seem like enough big players have heavily invested in Bitcoin, so there will only be so many people impacted.

@Jay Hinrichs 2008 was of course a major player but like today - everybody and their brother thinks they can be a developer or a big time real estate investor.

Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Lowes Corporate here in the area are some of the big players that cannot find enough corporate rentals, and are currently paying absurd prices for decent homes on AirBnb and HomeAway that are not even suited to their needs.

Many of the players are on www.loopnet.com and you can also Google what you need with a few of the commercial companies for example Keller Williams, Coldwell Banker, Marcus & Millichap, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, etc.My concern would be how will the buyer broker get paid? 

Form a solid team and a back up player for each key team member: Property manager, contractors, insurance agent, attorney, accountant, Real estate broker, lender3.

Stayed buying in Houston as that's where I built up a large team and know all the submarkets, what prices should be, who the players are, etc. 

As more players move into the hard money realm, the competition for deals makes it necessary to be more attractive than the next guy

You can sit in a cd at bank with little risk and cost but only make a minimal amountYou can sit in cash with a SDIRA custodian without  any risk or cost/fees and make little or no return. 

Lender... equity partner with bigger players were you can make 5 to 10 times the amount of return that you would on a annual basis as a landlord..