I think this is a bigger "every market is different" thing than pretty much anything else.I honestly believe that every market will have big fat deals if you look long and hard enough.With new construction there is going to be a rule of thumb for the costs (around me it is $100-150/sqft) so you have a rough idea of what it will cost to build and you should have a feeling for what houses will sell for of that size and whatever room makeup you decide on.

The lines should only have a small amount of water in them, unless you have a clog or a "belly" (low spot).

:)I say this completely out of sarcasm but I think that the gun manufacturers sent a nice fat check to the politicians and media to start spilling out all this crap about the need for gun control and removal of assault rifles from our society.

I will think of you the next time I find a sweet deal that needs a fat wallet!

I'd give them a big fat rent credit for November, letting them know now.

It is always important to remember, pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.

I personally think that the future of Real Estate is 2/1/1's and 2/2/1's - so that's what I would buy.You can collect the dividends while you wait, take the capital appreciation when it comes, and then patiently look for fat RE pitches.

I'm not suggesting that its ok for banks to lose money or that they should lose money, but they are much more able, culpable and open-eyed about investments and the risks than some CF mom & pop who put $2,000 into a deal where some investor buys 32 houses then goes belly up.With all the hoopla of real estate investing from 2000 to 2008, if CF for the small investor was available, I'd speculate that many small investors would have gotten burned, probably losing all their investment, even in the non-Ponzi schemes.

We have left a significant amount of buffer so that even if the whole thing goes belly up we can still continue our lives without worry.

Who knows, may be I'll be on vacation in the bahamas one day and the tenant has a broken dishwasher and he/she may repay my kindness by waiting a few extra days (yeah, fat chance).So my approach of not being too harsh on a strike #1 has bit me on my *** because some saw this as a weakness.I like the idea of a post dated check for several months.