I really don't like the investment horizon right now, personally; I do a lot of reading about the market (US and global) and various corporations, and I guess I just got tired of being an invisible cheerleader who had no real say in what was happening with his money.

My family almost relocated there a couple of times but ultimately never did. ...So the oil boom has come and now with increased global supply of oil, prices have tanked and the US oil industry is feeling it.

Hello, my name is Jason and after working in the industry for 4+ years and now working for a global hospitality I have recently purchased my first investment property In the next 5 to 10 years I would like to live solely off of my real estate investments.

The overwhelming leasing success of this development has emboldened its developer to fully launch Phase II of the Flats East Bank project, which adds 140 apartments and more retail space, creating a mixed-use, transit-oriented lakefront community from scratch in the heart of downtown.Read more here: http://www.flatseast.com- Global Center for Health Innovation and Convention Center ($465 million)City leaders in 2004 proposed a development to capitalize upon the presence of the Cleveland Clinic and the hundreds of spinoff biotech and healthcare companies within the metro area.

Some companies hijack your name to keep your business, including a very popular one you see advertising on TV.I design my own websites, host the websites with a global company that has numerous repeater data centers, and register the domain with a totally different company.

First - I think that competing directly with Angie's List, Yelp, etc. for global services such as contractors and sub-contractors would have limited lasting success.

Any global views/opinions/wake up slaps are appreciated.

To be perfectly honest I felt overwhelmed and started to realize that I would never get the books to where I wanted them to be while holding down a job that requires global travelling and running rehabs on the side.

I want to use RE as a vehicle to invest in properties with the use of solar energy, in assisting the global warming problem.

It seems that with this, coupled with extremely low barrier to entry and  a limited supply of land and real estate properties ( especially  commercial, such as apartments), and  the expansion of  major national/global brands who have billions of capital at their disposal, would be a recipe for oversaturation and major competition.