Here is the guy who is the inspiration for Donald Trump and many other real estate investors (including me) in an article from Fortune Magazine:http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/10/31/8359143/index.htm

BigDave, what is the catch with the free magazines?

lolOne that comes to mind is a house we had where the owners just had to save every single piece of reading material they ever had, newspapers and magazines stacked to the ceiling and apparently they had serious OCD becuse I swear there was literally about 500 bars of soap in the bathroom, looks like they got about 10uses out of each then just kept it and the cabinets were filled with stacks and stacks of new bars!

"We have enough listings that they don't repeat within a day," says Horning, whose company was No. 26 in REALTOR' Magazine's 2005 "Top 100 Companies" Per April 2006 REALTOR Magazine

I'm 23, work full time as a magazine designer and have purchsed 3 properties in the past three years in my spare time.

There seems to be a lot of experience needed to find and work the "no money down" deals.In terms of learning the area ... if you just moved there a few months ago, start by picking up the local real estate sales magazines.

The Wall Street Journals magazine, Smart Money, had an issue several months ago giving what cities were growing the fastest, as far as appreciation goes, and what cities were the most undervalued.

We have a very expensive office, been is many magazines, other offices recognize this office world wide.

In addition, they are advertising in some magazine without asking me.

I know someone is going to quote a recent (either "Business Week" or "Fortune") magazine article showing huge appreciation, particularly in the bigger cities; DFW, HOU, SAT, AUS, HOWEVER, no one has ever shown me the methodology used in that study and everything I've looked at in those markets changes when you BACK THE NEW CONSTRUCTION out of the equation.In my local market the appraisal district tried to jack our numbers up and I protested.