We live in a oil boom right now where the real estate is too high to really find any deals right now. 3 years ago you could have bought a house for $50k that today cost over $180.

It might take 2, 4 or 10 years, but some day you will locate one of them on Linkedin or MyFace, boom goes the garnishment.

Oil areas have repeating booms and busts, sometimes creating lots of vacant properties.Property that wasn't easily finance-able (houses on leased oil company land, junk houses, mobiles on land, etc.) was sold over and over on lease options or land contracts with no deed transfer.

Montgomery county is one of the highest income areas of the entire COUNTRY , its very expensive , They condos were selling high in the boom times , because people would pay that price , Now the prices have come back to earth or at least closer to earth . what others have said about the condo fees are very true .

Like so many people during the real estate boom I got caught up in purchasing property and am now slightly underwater on three Las Vegas town homes.

and BOOM!

Easy.Put some time in and *BOOM* -- real estate broker license.

He said it was poised to boom in the 60s in oil with it's deep water.

They both seem to be two booming markets out there.

And the birth rate in the lower economic classes is booming).