This skews the numbers greatly as it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. http://www.realestatedecoded.com/do-real-estate-agents-really-sell-homes-for-13-percent-higher-prices/

Where are permits being pulled, where are the areas of development happening, who has plans to move into which sectors of the city (i.e. large business moving into the area like Amazon, Apple, Walmart, Banner, banks, ASU (and all their affiliate campuses and satelitte campuses) Intel, USAirways, Dignity, Amex.. if you can follow where these large employers are bringing in jobs, then housing will follow. 

I'm not knocking nor am I lifting anyone up. 

you may want to seriously consider syndication.. let the pro's do the heavy lifting.. you make as much if not more with their expertise if U truly want to be passive.. and since your a mortgage banker or Licensed lender being the bank is a GREAT play..

I always saw myself in the contractor position but with the diagnosis of sciatica and the reality that while I am very strong, I am in fact a 5'5" woman who has no business lifting 60lb objects over the edge of a ladder.

He's out of Apple Valley.

Then I became the recommended real estate attorney for Apple employees.

There must be a reason why.Rajah your quite amusing... this is an investor buying a property.. the other lady is trying a sales gig she never did before apples and oranges.. we buy property at auction most every week.. its the name of the game. 

It sounds like the development is making progress, but wondering if others here have insight and opinions on this topic of growth in the area.Here's the 2010 post on why Apple won't invest in the U.S. - one concern was the supply chain, which Steve Jobs once mentioned that U.S. would have a difficult time investing with that sort of infrastructure that China has to support the product: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum...Anyway, a long discussion perhaps enough to jog conversation!

I love directly investing in properties and will probably never stop doing that but I'm also starting to get lazy and not want to be bothered with so many details of direct investing so I'm also ramping up my investments in REITS and syndications so I can let others do the heavy lifting for me.That makes me think of one final benefit to REITS over direct investing.