I moved here with my parents when they immigrated in 1978 or so, and I've lived , went to school and worked here since then.I'm not so sure I would call real-estate here a "boom-bust" cycle so much as a continuous upwards trend with a few notable reversions to sanity and one very notable boom-bust cycle (which the entire nation seem to go through at the same time.)I've never met anyone here that has ever thought buying was a good idea at anytime, myself included.

Our tree hugging, tax and spend boy prime minister and your president will impact the economy.

- the area of the country, the nature of the workforce (unionized, right to work, high level of illegal immigrants, etc), the size of the contractor, etc.

With most immigrants that I see, its not a matter of having bad credit, it's the issue of having no credit at all.

Seems morally strong,.....believes in a strong military, strong on immigration and protecting the borders, believes men should marry women and vice versa, ..........yaadee,,,,yaadee,,,,yaaaReally looks good on paper....lol

We also don't want to relax immigration laws to allow brains (Something we cannot produce any more) to come in.

Jobs also drive demand for immigration and force up the minimum wage (without artificial government mandates).

If you never heard of that before, private lenders are folks - mostly older, well established in the work place or their professions - who have funds such as retirement accounts for which they are seeking safer haven than Wall Street can offer as well as better returns.I personally know of two South Korean brothers in their 20s - immigrants, along with their parents who couldn't even speak English upon arriving - who, in the past three to four years, have developed a "stable" of private funding sources with $5+ Million available to them for their deals.

Also, immigration has slowed down and that was a big driver of population growth around the country over the last 2-3 decades.

You guys don't know what we go through while immigrants seriously.