We're Mainstream Again

[J Scott]

I've noticed over the past couple months that the mainstream media is starting to once-again acknowledge real estate investors -- especially landlords and rehabbers.

I've read several articles such as this one that came out today:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/13/real_estate/vulture_investors_profits/index.htm?hpt=T2

In my experience, when something starts to go mainstream like this, the general public starts to take notice, and lots of people start to think, "Hey, I can do that too!"

My guess is that, in the very near future, we're going to start seeing REIAs fill up, more new members at BP and more competition out in the field. In fact, I've already started seeing more traffic to my blog from random Internet searches with terms that indicate people are trying to learn the industry.

Has anyone else started seeing the signs?