Most people just don't "expand their vision and widen their horizon". ( I used that same statement many times in my presentation at the BP Summit.)

, but I'm 56 and don't have a twenty year horizon to build the portfolio.

Not to the same degree {yet}, but you can smell them just over the horizon.

Mark, anytime you're dealing with an ARM, you want to "stress" the interest rate to the max it can reset to over a long investment horizon of perhaps 15 years.

The $10B in estimated hedge fund deals "over the next 18 months" (see 2) translates in the market to about 0.5% of the SFR mortgage originations.In the article: "There are far more negative questions than optimism on the housing horizon: Where's the new mortgage money going to come from?

Also, are there any assessments on the horizon?

I would also like to expand my horizons in other areas of real estate investment as well.

Rehabs and flips are on the horizon.

With the Cline Shale on the horizon, properties are sold within days on the Mls here.

Finding deals through relationships built, properties and opportunities that never hit the market and aren't advertised, etc...I think there are at least two alternatives, albeit with a slightly longer time horizon, that could yield significantly higher returns.