Set up a spreadsheet and compare the two scenarios.

I just got the email alert at the butt crack of dawn, how was the deadline set for yesterday?"

The macro economy has nothing to do with whether it's a good time to invest, it's just a matter or having the skill-set and experience to recognize opportunity....There are always deals to be had! 

Anything beyond that is usually entertainment and heavily edited to fit in a nice 30 or 60 minute viewing slot and has a producer setting up/staging the "drama" that we see unfold during the show.

@William Washington with the limited information in your post, it sounds like you may be offering a security and should be setting up a Reg D offering (syndication).

Set your standards higher.

You need(ed) to start from the end...your ultimate financial goals, and reverse engineer from there.You also need to understand that every entrance into a deal, sets up the exit...which is based on the entrance to the next deal, and so on...   

The sale was on hold until the state issued guidelines and set up the offices to handle the new requirements.

I am more referring to situations when the financing is already set.

To skip to the punchline, I haven't landed a deal yet, but not for lack of effort.I've offered on three different sets of properties, and all have fallen through for one reason or another.