After the zoom call, several of us got on a call to decipher where this is all headed.

This can easily be deciphered after reading the early trend indicator. ....it's just matter of how deep the price reduction would be.Case-Shiller month-to-month index is already showing August 2022 is equal to Jan 2007 (the peak of GFC 2008 crash) where the index is negative.

Becaue direct ownership we could have control with fixed rate debt that's guaranteed by gov, our asset would usually flat or going up/stable, since it's controllable it's more like 'passive'. single family residential is not valued by the movement of cap rate, but it's valued by the real market supply-demand metrics.in all my direct asset everything is going up with scale of 20-40% IRR, so all these naives LP investors are just being fooled so much by the most teaching in real estate and they're not unable to decipher whether what they learnt is accurate or not. 

Or that you would have to decipher everything you learn to understand what they really have coming next for all of US?

Find the knowledge, decipher the significant vs the insignificant, learn form them both and apply the takeaways to your challenge.  

What's best when is a hard thing to decipher, so is RE the best asset class? 

Input #8 is the most important one that I've been trying to decipher for years.

Have three kids now, all of them too young to decipher how they're going to fully develop.

  :)so to me Cash flow is were you find it.. go nuts trying decipher which area is best.

If you want to send me your proposal I can look it over to help decipher it.