I am a computer engineer (Chip Design), I retired in 2000 after the company I worked for, completed a successful IPO. My wife was always addicted to Real Estate. Four years ago we started to work in Real Estate; short after that I took my CA RE Broker license. I never believed that I can really practice Real Estate since I have a right leg disability ( I walk with crutches ). This year I started together with my wife a Real Estate company. We are very strong in Internet Marketing and this proved to be very beneficial for us. So far despite Real Estate downturn this is by far our best year, it looks like for us the downturn work to our advantage. We have quite a lot of buyers from internet and now I try to find more properties.
I would like to have some REO since my buyers are looking all the time for bargains. So far the REO's here do not look like a bargain. At this point we do not have any portfolio buyers. I look for banks or portfolio owners interested in disposing properties here in Silicon Valley one by one.