When you filter the data down like this, it becomes a lot clearer where the no-go areas are vs. fringe/transition areas where you might get some car break-ins overnight, but you're unlikely to get mugged.I live and invest in St.

You went through boot camp, deployed, and served your country for that va loan.

At least with real estate things don’t change overnight so if you keep on top of the market and notice things are changing you can get out and reinvest in a more attractive growing market .

Many bears are in the camp that the credit bubble has supplied much of the appreciation we have seen over the past 10 years, and the trend is soon to break down. 

Not in it to get-rich overnight but at the same time I don't want to get stuck in "analysis paralysis" and not take any action towards building my business.

And in todays world we see people want to get rich in real estate basically over night.. :)  But this is what the flipping Gurus teach and many have gotten in trouble promising 40k a month and you to can do that.realization is the average person unless they have access to a few million in cash and loans will never get to those volumes..

So maybe RV/Tent camping is a better option? 

With verbal leases, a tenant could claim they are on a rent-to-own arrangement, or that their "handshake" included a "no overnight guests from racial group x" fair housing violation.

The number of agents might thin out, but I don't think the commercial brokerage industry is going to disappear overnight.

We did a doc about Japanese American internment specific to the Heart Mountain camp.