But, before doing so, ensure that you have the ingredients to be successful and it begins with getting REI educated.Don't get bogged down with analysis paralysis.

As such I consider Action to be a key ingredient to success.

So I don't think the ingredients are in place for a flood of distressed inventory like 2008.  

Having an end game , understanding the timing of ins and outs, knowing the players and the rules are all necessary ingredients to minimize risk and know that you have a strategy that will succeed.IMO any one that sees the stock market as a crap shoot should stay a way from it.

BUT beware,,,it will kill underlying roots of desirable trees also.It is a great lawn broadleaf control also,with above limitations of killing desireable trees underlying roots,,,the weed B gone is basicly a 2-4-D product which knocks them back also,,,but NOT as toxic to underlying good tree roots The 'CUT" sapling treatment MAY be one way around this,,but the active ingredient of it 'piclorin'(sp) is death on wheels for trees.

There are already some ingredients suggest it will not stay that way very long.Bay Area: Tech job growth has rapidly decelerated- Even with looming layoffs, tech still drives region’s economyBelow is a summary of all jobs including San Francisco, Peninsula and Santa Clara County including most of SiliconValley:In 2017 it was Verizon merged with Yahoo that resulted in plant closing and employees get booted out including Yahoo’s CEO who would like to stay but was told otherwise.

A freeze in credit is a key ingredient to a real estate crash.So what we may experience is a transition to a "buyer's market." 

DEA agent was telling me recently that there's very little Meth made in the US because it's so difficult to get the ingredients and there is so much cheap Meth made in Mexico.Mike Butler, a former undercover cop and now national Speaker used to be an expert on Meth labs.

Those are the three ingredients and then, you know, I say five plate because then the other part is the takeover and also the due diligence in your team, which is you can hire them after interviewing and then of course the property management company you can hire them.

But  it has all the ingredients, great location, safe area, long term tenants, which I met and interviewed each one of them.