Sure you can speculate about "peak oil," but I remember first hearing this term in the early 2000's, long before the current booms were at full strength.  

Perhaps for a speculative position. 

Although I have no personal experience in flipping this property type, I speculate that the condo associations and bylaws (for renting) would need to be investigated to determine what your options are before you make an offer.Regards,Scott Miller

Without the "herds", we'd just be speculators!

I feel like the more speculators there are, the better as a whole it will be for the consumers/end users (in general.) you'd have a terrible time flipping off of the MLS in cache valley (I've looked) but I know guys who do flips from leads that they find off market.

i am easy going and work with their schedule. i always pay and the checks always clear. i am compassionate and often times i get them lunches and coffees. sometimes i dont even ask them to come back and fix what they missed cause i dont want to piss them off.i had a guy for the last 3 months that was making $15/hr and would do anything. he was late on his child support a few times and i always came through. today for the first time i told him "the tenant can not be bothered so many times (multiple items on a punch list). we need to go in there and get it done in one day". so he told another guy that i put "too much pressure on him and he can not work with me anymore". i was stepping on eggshells around this guy not wanting to upset him and always played by his rules even when i didn't agree...am i crazy for being nice to guys that i'd suppose (speculating) are used to being treated like child's diaper? 

The land, specific to SF Bay area, can be summed as the extreme of hyper speculative formula where land value is calculated broadly to the rate its improvement is calculated that no single formula can be used to measure its true value.

Essentially, speculation. 

Of course it's all educated speculation.4.

I was told a lot of investors in the area are speculators, sacrificing cash flow for hope of appreciation - is this accurate?