One of the things I think is most hopeful is looking at what flippers are actually paying to purchase the house, and what they are actually selling them for.What I find is the greatest mistake is they look at what they can sell it for......then they subtract sales cost, they subtract what they think is the renovation cost, then take a percentage off that number to arrive at what they want to pay for the property. 

Money arrives in 3 business days and no claw back possibility.

The 2009 crash was probably a once in a life-time event.

Soon after arriving to my first duty station in central TX (Ft.

I am going to start investing as soon as my work permit arrives and banks will lend me money.

I am going to start investing as soon as my work permit arrives and banks will lend me money.

Then the market continued to crashed (we bought on the way down) and 2 more kids later,(lol) we rode the market down to a -50k loss, then rode it back up to a +90k gain.

I am trying to compile historical real estate data going back to before the last market crash, so let's say back 15 years to 2004.

They want your "skin in the game".The companies that used to provide 100% financing with no buyer downpayment - they all went out of business during the 2008 crash!

People here continuously talk about real market crashes as if they were a normal occurrence and have blinders on to what reality is when it comes to real estate.