I want to echo what James and others are saying, banks have wised up and now they're releasing their inventories in a controlled fashion and pricing them very aggressively to move fast so they can mark them to market on their books and move on.

Make friends with a title officer and they will give you access to systems that let's you pull any document you want.If you have MLS access, the ones in California come with a First American product called Realist that gives you basic ownership info for free.

It's really not a trick, it's the old-fashioned necessity of having a partner, having your lender relationships set up in advance of finding the deals.

I think the growing demographic of older Americans, empty nesters and other individuals and couples would be thrilled to not have to rent, share space, or pay larger utility bills and maintain a space larger than needed.

If you manager your RE docs in a similar fashion, you could have all your contracts, offers, etc. all on your phone.On my iPad I use Pages all the time, and Keynote and Numbers occasionally.

a 65% LTV secured loan that we'd be offering would have the equivalent of an A rating or better (obviously you wouldn't state it in this fashion since your loan is not rated by a rating agency).Yes, this is relatively illiquid and as such, it would be strongly suggested that this constitute no more than 25% of an investor's assets.

I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada, and am one half of a company that specializes in acquiring American real estate for both Americans and fellow Canadians (mostly vacation spots; have to escape these winters somehow!).

Architecture is fashion just like clothing.

Eliminate all welfare handout programs - get Americans back to work. 2.

One of the effects of the current Real Estate crisis is the forced liquidation of a large portion of Americans stored "wealth".