Contract law can have real teeth and being sued for specific performance could be compounded if the seller has other actual damages.A law professor once told me "We can't make you buy the house, but we can make you wish you had."

We moved here from California because I'm a professor in Canada and commute back and forth and have fallen in love with the Midwest (never thought I would but I did!)

The Mortgage Professor has tons of articles about this on his site if you want to read through them.

If I were in your shoes, I would go to work for a successful developer and learn from someone that is actually in the business instead of a career professor who probably can't use a tape measure.

Hi, I'm Andrew Lee, a college English professor and a small real estate investor for five years now.

I own and operated an aircraft avionics engineering firm and I am a tenured Aeronautics Professor looking to get in the rental market.

Next time you should call it a lecture. just sit and lisson to what I have to say and dont say a word or ask any questions.. one of my professors likes it that way... terrible way to learn.

He was a Marketing professor at the time he wrote those books based on surveys of millionaires and interviews with top sales people.

I guess I am just too economically immature to really see the forest for the trees in regard to synthesizing the conflicting views and predictions of various economists, including the Wiedemers who have made many unambiguous and harsh assessments and predictions, Dalio who produced that video and who is a successful hedge fund manager, this professor Fullenkamp I have been reading up on, and Krugman whom I am aligned with politically.

It's actually an old sheet one my real estate finance professors had given to me back when I was in school.