Right now you can purchase CBS 3/2 homes just outside of one of the healthiest markets in South Florida, just outside of Downtown Delray and biking distance to the beach for $50k-$90k.

In the matter of 8 months the prices doubled for newer houses and it has the healthiest market in Cleveland - shortage of inventory.

Normally the classes are top notch, but this one I walked out - it was just the bare basics and I could tell it sounded like greek to most of the agents present.

@Joe Splitrock for the encouragement and for being so darn reasonable all the time@Mindy Jensen for expert local insight, knowledge, and mediation skills @Bill F. for getting me out of my echo-chamber and teaching me how to "win every argument"@Jim K.for somehow managing to mix things like Greek mythology and McRibs into otherwise boring real estate talk.

Hi Shane,While I was born overseas and I grew up in upstate New York, my great-grandfather burned coke in Clarion and my grandmother was baptized in the Greek Orthodox cathedral in Oakland.

The term charisma (pl. charismata, adj. charismatic; from the Greek ???????

.*: Styx - from ancient Greek mythology, the river running along the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead ("the underworld", Hades, etc.).

But you had better polish off one or two of the others first as it expects you to have a full understanding of the options model and greek-based risk management.Once you have a basic understanding of Options, there are some great resources on the web that you can use for trade research and play.

The citizens are also some of the healthiest people in the world.The cost of national health care is higher income taxes.

Your rate of return should ... no, *must* exceed your debt service costs unless you want to be a Greek tragedy.BTW: your rate of return is the CAP rate if you purchased the property w/o leverage (read: all cash) ... which means there would be no debt service (interest expense), so your CAP exceeding your interest rate would be a certainty.