Im doing my research into the commercial side of things, and the things I list below are my concerns that kind of make me scared to make a move at the moment.
(1) Interest rates could shoot up, and property values go down.
(2) Increasing government regulation on how much profit I can make from each property I lease or rent
(3) Increasing taxes of some sort or reduced deductions or depreciation limits, which futher hit the bottom line.
In other words, buy and hold/lease is looking scary vs buy and flip/wholesale.
Someone care to tell me none of the above are things to keep me from buying commercial property?
You can keep your money in the bank or long term bonds and a reocurrance of high inflation can render your investments worthless. The investing climate is always dangerous, there are no guarantees. However, there are always ways to mitigate risk. For example, this late in my investing career I purchase for all cash only. Early in my career I used extremely high leverage as I had little to lose. Money is made and lost in all economic environments. We just take our best educated guess and go from there. As John Maynard Keynes said "In the long run we're all dead anyway".