Also all appreciation markets are more volatile, seeing periods of rapid upswings, and down.

If asset price going down due to market volatility, simple, you don't sell.

.- I've been on the sidelines with this weird high interest rate and volatile environment for about two years now.

In volatile times you need to make sure that you are even more disciplined in following your numbers and sticking to it. 

Newbies and those with limited resources should be a bit more prudent when volatility is as it is. 

The problem becomes what happens when they go to underwriting in a highly volatile time.My personal opinion is that as credit starts to tighten and the effects of the unemployment spike start to seep into the market you’ll start to see that drag on the market.

There have been oil shortages and oversupply wars that have caused volatility.

I cashed out of the stock market myself a few years back to start up my investment property portfolio, as I just grew tired of the unpredictable volatility game that comes with making money based on what everybody else does in the stock market aka out of my control.My money is doing so much more for me now in real estate, growing in more ways than one, under more my control with the ability to move it with more ease minus fees and penalties.Of course I'm not totally out of the stock market, as I still have money invested in some mutual funds through my employer and a HSA account.

There is much lower volatility in the market, so there won't be as much appreciation (for example if the coastal markets see a12-15% appreciation the midwest might get a 5% market appreciation) but they also don't drop in value as quickly.

I'd get higher cash flow from a duplex somewhere like NC or Wisconsin.....but the markets in lower income areas tend to be a little more volatile I think.