The only way you could convince me was if you made some sort of demonstrable change and then... stopped crashing!  

During the crash of 2008 the vacancy rate for C class properties was very high.

I bought it to live in, and after moving out there was no way to sell it without taking a huge loss (we purchased it in 2007, pre-crash).  

Can you imagine the public cry if the banks were held responsible for crashing the market by a huge release of supply?

If my market appreciates and I decide to sell, I make some money but if it crashes, I have a pad because people will always need rents. 

The house is located in east Atlanta in the Edgewood neighborhood and was vacant for over a year while the statutory barment process was completed and was vandalized and used as a crack house and a place for homeless to crash.

I've lived here since 1989 and the only real blips on the screen I've seen in my time have been during the tech crash and the 2009 recession.

My computer crashed and did a bunch of stupid stuff, this was one of them.

Hi @Loretta Sanchez, Not sure if you attended the training on Tuesday night or not, but if you did, I hope you got value out of learning from my experience through the last crash and the strategies I teach in my upcoming book: CASH IN -- What to do BEFORE, During & AFTER the next housing market crash.I covered how I put my first $10M real estate fund together in 2008 while the market was in "real estate free-fall", what I discovered (in hind-sight) was my $30MM mistake and the 10 step process I teach in my book to cash in on the real estate market going forward.

The real estate market here as compared with say Queens, NY hasn't really recovered since the crash of 2005-06.