As our currency falls and erodes the purchasing power of a dollar, gold continues to rise.

I guess Zillow can now use its stock currency to make acquisitions in this space and increase its product offerings and audience.

Eventually this will likely lead to the Dollar losing reserve currency status.

Also, the inspection will provide you all the "little items" as I call them, that will likely come up on the end buyers inspection report and having that in front of you allows you to have your crew repair or add all of those items so the final buyers inspection comes back very clean and leaves little for them to use as negotiating tools.Also, having a second trained pair of eyes on your investment, while in escrow, but BEFORE you purchase, is well worth the small fee!

Last year when I went over to China the exchange rate was 7/1 and 12 months later it was 5/1.What do you think about holding savings in a different currency?

They are in what I would call an average blue coller area.Not great but not terrible neighborhood.Numbers:-Purchase price is 130k on the pair (no money down at this time)-Taxes are $3600 yr-Insurance is $3400 yr (can this be right?)

To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Umpqua Bank, Roseburg, Oregon, to assume the insured deposits of the Bank of Clark County.http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2009/pr09005.htmlNational Bank of Commerce, Berkeley, Illinois, was closed today by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver.

"Just Do It" might be good advice if you want to buy a pair of shoes.

They were talking about somebody buying a pair of used 5 year old Mercedes and having 40K (Yep thats right) of unknown loans on THEIR cars.

One important item is the currency exchange and transfer fees.