Use stocks to invest in my first property?

[Seth Michael Carp]

Hey I'm Seth and recently I have been putting most of my money into stocks hoping that in the next year or so I could use the money to start house hacking, I am working and make roughly 1000 a month as I am still in high school and it is wrestling season so I don't have much time. My main question is, do you think it is too risky to have the money that I want to invest with in the next year and a half in stocks, especially when most people are saying that the market is going to go down a lot, or should I get out now and keep the cash to invest in a year and a half?