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Yes but you're talking more about timing than leverage. Any investment decision - with or without leverage - needs to be made at the right time. Invest 100% cash into a property that drops 40% next year and you're still going to be negative for quite a while. Expand your business poorly or at...

Absolutely, leverage will always hurt more in a bad market. But I'm not trying to say who'll perform better over the short term, just using it as an example of how to think bigger. Each of the investors above assumed it was good time to get into the asset class. Yes a bad market can always bite...

There's nothing wrong with thinking small, as long as you don't plan on being 'big' in the larger picture of investing. I believe thinking small is a huge limiting factor for many investors out there. It's not so much about the size of the investments themselves (that's always going to be...