Bobby D, Good for you. You have a great attittude and while there might be better deals to be found next year that doesn’t take anything away from your play. Sell in 2005, buy standing inventory two years later with a large down payment at a huge discount, I give you a B+ and an A for sportsmanship. Assuming you aren’t leveraged too heavily and have a fixed and comfortable payment, playing the bottom for a rental property is a good plan, when it’s all said and done and you look at your balance sheet, your two years as a renter may end up netting you the rental for free. Even if you jumped back in too early, your exit was timed perfectly, had you jumped out in 2003 then waited until 2009 to get back in the margin would have been the same so timing the top correctly gives you leeway in timing the bottom incorrectly, it’s all about margin, baby.