If you own a home, you avoid the HOA fees, and you can differentiate on the property, seclusion, etc as opposed to having price wars with neighbors and needing the best interior in the building.None of that is to say you can’t make money with a condo

I talked to numerous California investors in real life and phone/Zoom calls who have lost money in far away OOS markets, mostly Midwest markets (e.g. repairs, capital expenses, bad tenants, properties vandalized while under renovation, evicted tenant stole all the appliances, property managers with high fees or overcharging for repairs).

I'm about ready to retire so I'm not looking to compete in a bidding war, mainly looking for a fair deal that I can rehab or a turnkey with some cash flow. 

WHEN (yes I mean WHEN not if because over 30+yrs it happens many times) when the market has a drop for whatever reason be it a bad election, war tensions, someone sneezed on there terminal and HFT's went bazerk selling, whatever the cause, WHEN the market drops you get a "Margin CALL" and next thing ya know there not just selling off those leveraged positions BUT there selling em off in the drop, at the lowest price, amplifying losses, all those returns going out the window in moments.     

For his first two years here he stayed in a rooming house, because he couldn’t afford his own house or apartment.After World War II this country “got rich”, affordable housing became plentiful as “the suburbs” were developed.  

Within the last 2 months, I've been approached by numerous investors asking if I do rent by room which I currently do not.

Its byproducts include over five churches and numerous community-building activities whose effects are still felt today.

I acknowledge I made numerous mistakes, but I do think I have a lot working to my advantage here.

The SEC wars against prommissory note scams here: https://www.sec.gov/investor/p...

Oregon has officially declared war on rental-property owners.