Has anyone deliberatekt & succesfully timed the market?

[Justin Thorpe]

There are at any given time several posts about how people are “waiting for the correction or crash” to invest in RE.

Are there any BP investors who have deliberately (in a planned manner) timed a market knowing a correction or crash was coming?

I have been investing for > 20 years primarily in SF Bay Area and NYC. I have a business background, a top school MBA and worked for several years on Wall Street, but I’ll confess I cannot predict a crash or a boom!

100% of my investments happened because I liked the property, saw value, had a good team, found comfort about the sellers and as it turns out I also had a good enough balance sheet to make the purchase. Yet I recall not selling properties during 2008 - 2011, purely because I liked them and saw them valuable even as the overall market was taking a beating. The properties I purchased during the time was also a about value vs analytics about timing about a crash.

So my question to gurus who have deliberately timed economic cycles, can you share the leading economic indicators/ trends that guided you & and how is that experience guiding you now.