Then once you get really large, Buidlium, Appfolio, Yardi are some of the big players.

Banks will be hard pressed to give you a lone if you don't have a couple of years of taxes and bank accounts to show them you are real player. 

The academic literature I've read said says that, of all the players in the real estate ecosphere, builders are the most rate sensitive.

Saw a different post where you responded to a football player and curious to know how you reached 12k passive income a month from $250k cash investment I myself just put $300k into an apartment building in Las Vegas my cost with fees $1,175,000 I’m holding a note for $862k at 4.75 pay insurance 600 a month management $400 a month taxes $400 a month this is a 20 unit at 550 a door 18 units currently leased I figure this only nets me $5k this doesn’t even consider misc maintenance

A lot of the Fed’s power comes not from the rates but from the fear of rate hikes, so the Fed pivoting would have sent the market way up bonds way down and ran the risk of inflation retrenching.

They are a big player in our market and have a lot of long standing relationship with owners in the area.

Plenty of ways to pivot and still be profitable! 

Most of the players in Manhattan are hedge funds, so its not even individual millionaires or billionaires investing their money but a collective group.

If you have not studied and don't understand real estate principals and the fundamentals, you won't know what to look for because you won't know what a deal looks like.You are competing in a world of serious players who have done their homework, paid their dues, performed the research, made the business connections and now they typically have too much capital chasing too few deals.Where does that leave you?

I tell him I work only with real players and with cash deals to close fast in 1-2 weeks.