Anyone with a good knowledge of History (especially Cultural Anthropology) will be able to predict future patterns of human behavior based upon past human behavior.

If that deal holds, said Von Ancken, it will be the highest price ever paid for air rights in the city.Von Ancken told the luncheon that, while air rights were definitive and quantifiable, he wasn't quite as adept at predicting the future of the real estate market in Manhattan, commenting, "The future is amorphous and is dependent on many variables."

The option is also powerful in that you can just make it a condition of the wholesale that the seller sells to the end buyer and you get paid on the HUD as a satisfaction of your lien instrument.

Most of the assets are in 1st National while First Heritage accounts for $254 million.Any predictions on the next banks to fall?

People generally buy notes as income instruments, not as back-door purchases.

The problem a lot of beginning investors have, though, is they don't know a good price, they can't accurately predict cash flow or how to determine whether they'll have POSITIVE cash flow, and they don't have an exit strategy in mind when they buy a property.Educate yourself, learn your local market, and invest!

If you check out this techie guy Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5000 days of the web on the youtube he explains it pretty well.

It predicts less, not more.

No, I don't think so, but they are now saying the bottom is 6 months away and then of course there will be a scramble to buy and if prediction and history prevail, the market should go up.Jurdy(Florida)

It is impossible to accurately figure the expenses for a particular property and a particular time frame - there are simply too many expenses that can not be predicted.