I'm not even foolish enough to think that the "American Dream" is currently fueled by much more than easy credit and the next looming economic disaster to hit this great country.I *am* smart enough to know that there are far better ways to put money in my pocket than to leave home for weeks/months at a time on a small boat with a bunch of smelly men and hope that we hit it big.

hello, as a seattle investor i caution you to invest in this market right now if cash flow is your strategy. you will be hard pressed to find anything that cashflows that is in an area that makes sense and has a quality tenant base. you may do good on appreciation over the next year or so, but a correction is looming and seattle is a highly cyclical makers, the highs are  high but the lows are low. also, as stated above many times, seattle is on of the most tenant friendly cities putting an addition burden on investors/landlords.

I don't hear much talk about this potential looming problem.Just a thought.

My separated husband and I own a couple rental properties. Our rentals are in an LLC owned equally by both of us. Several years ago we borrowed against our own home to buy a property. The LLC in effect "owes" our ho...

The traffic is way too low to get any national credit tenants, and with a recession looming on the horizon, retail spaces with mom and pop tenants are the first to go vacant, and they stay that way for a long time.Another negative is the cost to re-tenant.

As a newbie I would love to say that I'm not terrified by the mountain that seem to loom in front of me as a 19 yr old college student who is currently fighting to pay down federal loans that are accruing, but what I can see from re-reading this forum is getting a mentor is important for success.

I will be turning 49 in six months so I can definitely feel the big 5-0 looming on the horizon.

Prices in the markets I’m in, Atlanta included, are still at all time highs and aren’t reflecting a looming recession and effects on an elated housing market. 

nationally, in 35 years there has only been one crash or collapse not a few - S&P CS index, FHHA index, NAR index, Fed indexes, and a bunch of others. that crash or collapse was the Great Recession. there have been many normal business cycle corrections. asset class corrections get rid of over leveraged investment. i never suggested a crash or collapse in the context of the Great Recession that implies many more problems and failures in house pricing and lending. that is not a correction. i suggested a bear market could mean a significant devaluation in home prices. home price devaluation is not a collapse when there it not material or significant default and foreclosure.assuming real estate assets are income producing, then there would be no need or reason to dispose of those assets. i would not advocate to my clients to sell of portfolio assets with a looming recession.what moron idiot owner would sell for less than FMV?

I'm sure you're aware of this looming issue in commercial RE.