Sometimes, grocery stores have sales and it makes sense to buy something delicious. 

My mom has been a teacher in the Lakewood school district for the past 17 years and is very familiar with the neighborhoods and the flavor of the community.

Zip codes really don't mean anything here because the flavor of an area can change within a few blocks.

They are very different types of investments.Commercial RE comes in many flavors as well which further complicates the comparison.I'm starting off into commercial property investment in a small way so that I can get my feet wet.

And when you are at the "free" training, you should be able to notice that the power point presentation slides will have inconsistent background graphics - these are selected slides taken from the varying modules that are to be sold, so you get a flavor for the content of all modules without all of the meat [some of the trainers have caught onto this and gottne their background graphics to look alike between modules].My suggestion: take the free training and avoid the upsell; more training and info are available elsewhere.

@Ryan Bird Financial Advisors come in many different flavors to include compensation structures and areas of expertise.  

Think Berkshire Hathaway BHHS or keller Williams or exp or Remax or Weichert or Coldwell banker plus whatever local flavor brokerages you have in town that are usually on a 50/50 - 70/30 split model.

Probably drunk off of Lerouix Coffee flavored brandy

Check the county site for the name of the owners and then look them up with ypages or pick your flavor....  

The initial lender or noteholder is paid off by the lender who is refinancing the loan and the net difference to the borrower usually is any array of revision to loan terms (rate, term etc.).Sometimes the borrower voluntarily refinances a loan because there are favorable terms they could benefit from and sometimes the borrower refinances because they have to... such as when you have to get out of a hardmoney loan post rahab or if you have some flavor of an ARM or balloon loan that matures or becomes due.