As someone who is living abroad.The world is rapidly changing, because we are becoming highly globalized.With the ability to fly almost anywhere within a 36 hour period.The internet is allowing me, living in Korea to write about this.My new smartphone is more powerful and has more hard drive space, (plus I think it's amazing) than my first computer.You concern that American real estate is going to become like the manufacturing sector is interesting, but nothing to fear.You job as an investor isn't being outsourced.Would you feel the same way if (insert big bank, BofA, etc) came in and bought all the properties?

Hard to tell on my smartphone.

Just thought I would toss out my top 5 apps that I use on my phone to help with real estate & investing:

Real Estate Calculator - Free app that allows you to quickly analyze the ROI & CAP on a deal an...

Just spend over a month researching just which smartphone/plan to buy!

Not a priority for the generation that grew up on instant messaging and smart phones.

:)I strongly suggest that you download the app for your smart phone and also you should find the BiggerPockets Podcasts and listen to All of them!

Otherwise I have to have a smart phone or ipad and hope that it's getting a signal or not battery challenged. 

I realize that BP doesn't have an Android App (even though 80% of smartphones activated run Android)....but is there any mobile version of the site (specifically the forums)?

The smart phone/cloud solutions are especially interesting. 

You can do it all from the ease of your computer/smart phone.