I recently heard of a new development in a fairly popular part of town that are LEED certified homes, and the subdivision is built by 7 builders, not one or two.

I think that they are a good group that mentors investors, educates, and provides network that aren't any different than other groups or popular individuals.

Internal obsolescence can be controlled or modified, such as a floor plan requiring traffic to go through a bed room to enter a or the only bathroom, or having a bedroom off a living area requiring traffic to go through a living area to get to a bathroom.Social aspects, popularity of an area, shift over time and may change the market aspects of any residence.It's rather naïve to walk up to any property and declare that the property will be purchased and kept forever if it is influenced by community factors.

Some of the more popular areas mentioned on BP like Memphis and Austin have more than half a million people and probably the suburbs of those large cities even surpass Portland, Maine in population.

I absolutely can't believe how many followers RK has.That so many people I respect on here seem to have gained so much from him really tells me that financial education is so horrible in this country that RK's terrible book being popular is still a good thing for so many people.I don't see how anyone can respect him when he clearly recommends cheating on your taxes - he says to expense a Rolex, right?

CPA will have to help you here.Partnerships aren't popular in real estate ventures.

The podcasts are particularly popular.

I will tell you this story, I was looking at a house on a major road (I was looking for a house for me to live in), the realtor told me not to buy the house, will be very hard to sell, she was right BUT I bought it anyways b/c I liked the layout and close to a very popular downtown, then I moved to another house and made it a rental and it rents like hot pancakes!

For what I seeing, the west side is the most popular for student housing, although, the areas are a block by block kind of thing.

BUT you have to have access to quiet money or bank loans... there is hard money for this but your returns will go down to 20% or so if you borrow at too high a rate.I bet you can do this in CA pretty easy to doing infill in the more popular towns. and metro areas.