Based on the prior two sentences, I would be cautious about retail priced investing, which is what there is unless you know how to extract a property from an owner w/o market forces at work... meaning buying from a seller who is not ready, willing, or able to sell.

And some of them are really awesome.However, I haven’t come across any useful tool I can use to source deals and analyze the market in Dubai.This is also the reason why I’m building my own - although automating data extraction and its manipulation is a lot of work.What tools are you guys using that focus on Dubai?

Extract the BS from the seller.

No chance spending will decrease meaningfully in this economic environment.So 2012, +-5% from where we are now waiting for the jobs to begin to show up.Major event, then lower.

There has also been a significant uptick in explosions caused by people extracting hash oil using butane or other solvents.

But I will firmly stand behind the statement that providing education and doing RE investing are two different businesses.And I will also state that I do think there are many "educators" in this business who provide very little value for the amount of money they extract from their "students".

That's because it doesn't take into account the time value of money, so the longer the time between investment and return, the less meaningful the result.

If they damage your property in excess of the security deposit potentially you have someone besides a tenant to extract monetary damages from.

I look to purchase properties that are underperforming that I can add value to and reposition to be able to refinance and extract my capital while cash flowing on the deal.  

He will see the 10% bonus of profits as a nice carrot and nothing more - he will see his ability to bill you for an unlimited bucket of unaudited hours as his primary means of extracting money from you.As an added bonus, he will have the opportunity to buy materials that you may or may not understand, directly from your pocket, with the repercussions from overspending being a [perhaps distant] future problem to worry about.