And enough people were doing that that the price of those raw materials remained high.Or if you prefer a real estate analogy, the Empire State Building was begun in 1930, AFTER the stock market crashed.  

Anybody know of any investor meet ups in the Inland Empire, Riverside, or even Orange county area?

I called a realtor and told him he was my new pawn in pursuit of a larger RE empire, I think that would bring it to two homes.

I'm not interested in building an empire or being a millionaire.  

You can find them here on BP.My advise when you are looking for your first home get one that is outdated, an ugly house but in a nice area, be open minded that is what REI is about we see the beauty in ugly and also the dollar signs ;) fix it little by little for the next 2 years, after that you can rent it and take out the equity, use that equity to purchase your next house and have your tenants pay your mortgage and you continue doing this, because you are starting at such a young age you can build your REI this way and you will have so many choices to continue building your empire.

His "empire" is built around creative financing.

My thoughts are why bother if it doesn't directly benefit not just effect but BENEFIT your empire, so to state!

There is a place called Empirer out a little farther then Heebys for material too.

You can start to build a pretty nice empire

We are building an empire to support not only ourselvs but, genorations to come.