With NASA being shut down (essentially) I am wondering how the area is holding up.I would love to be able to buy and rent out my childhood home.

okay, so I'm a 27 year old full time student with sketchy credit( progress of repairing) who has managed to scrape up some change, about 30k or so and me and a childhood friend who has near excellent credit have been talking about buying a house or a duplex if possible to live in and also rent out, is it really hard?

I just saw a commercial in which Bob Villa (whom I haven't trusted since childhood...) talks about this new grass that is low maintenance.

It is actually my childhood home, though I am trying to not let that make me do something stupid.

I do have some good childhood friends in Phoenix and I am not crazy about the weather and location but I think for investing it does make senseI generally like Phoenix more than IE since it is a major growing metropolitan city and I believe will have a lot of deals coming up there again soon with all the out of state investors jumping in there.Not too crazy about land lording.

My interest in real estate began when my parents moved from house to house throughout my childhood and into my adulthood.

They also did not just choose to not purchase flood insurance, it was to their understanding not available to them because their community was not part of some flood protection program, but I really don't know the details.To say my dad is not successful would be completely false, as he is very successful in comparison to the vast majority of our local population and I lived I privileged child hood - so it's not a matter specifically of my potential of earning for more income.

You see...being an Illinois farm boy in my childhood, I knew enough about rural property to recognize that the house sat on several acres of prime farm land.

When I return to the Seattle area in a few years, I would like to start a real estate LLC with my childhood friend.

Its sad to see how a few mistakes made by a referee can put a whole country on its knees.I lived in Croatia for the most of my childhood and know how passionate everyone is for the game.Its harsh to use words like corruption and bribery but the 2 decisions were not made with the sale criteria.Some referees are more stringent than others with certain things and have different perceptions.