Driving the streets, talking to locals, eating/sitting at a local cafe, and personally getting a feel for the different areas will allow you to understand those dynamics and therefore allow you have an edge over other "out-of-state" investors that just rely on those reports and long-distance phone conversations.

Now, its also possible to use an IRA to invest in real estate, so you can have your cake and eat it too, BUT it makes investing more complicated. if you want to try that route, you better do some research first.

They can choose to stay home and eat the candy their parents purchased or they can go out into the neighborhood.

Value can be eating at Cheeseburger Bobby's  for slightly more money.

They could decide that they no longer want to allow owners to rent out their property or drastically increase the fees that could eat into your cash flow.

Vacancy will eat away any profit you were hoping to get from a higher rent.Have you posted on all the site? 

If you do this, it will eat up some of your equity in double closing costs, but if it makes sense, then you can consider it?

They eat profits.

Tragically, the Camp Fire will go down in history and people all over the world, years and decades from now will always be shocked by the destruction and pain that this fire caused.Just imagine going to pick up something from the store and not having a place to cook and eat it, because it is quite possible that everything you own and your home is/maybe completely be gone...

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