It is true that we are experiencing a real estate bubble, and as someone once said, bubbles are made to burst.

Fair enough, but keep in mind that real estate has a tendency to ebb and flow over a cycle of approximately seven years. The roller coaster ride associated with the real estate market is not new. It is called adjustment; based on previous cycles, the market adjusts down for about three years, recovers, and then climbs back up—sometimes higher and far beyond where they were.

Real estate investors who continue real estate investing after the bubble bursts gain to find some good investment opportunities and make good deals if they are watchful—particularly when they are mindful to watch for sellers with problems and for one reason or another become highly motivated to sell their rental property.

It may sound uncompassionate, and not the way some investors want to succeed at real estate investing, but many sellers will be glad to have you take them out of their current investment situation.

If you are serious about real estate investing, and are committed to building a real estate investment business, rather then standing back in the face of a declining real estate market, take advantage of it. You might discover that the most profitable investment you make is in the downward cycle of the real estate market.