Be wary of those get rich quick real estate courses with the celebrity endorsements. 

I think you have a small celebrity Status in San Marcos you can play off and San Marcos is a cool place to live.  

Yes indeed.Bruce Norris put out an interview with Harry Dent (with controversial history of predictions), but does bring up the point about China's bubble that should be popping anytime soon.http://www.thenorrisgroup.com/blog/news/harry-dent...I don't think the Chinese are generally over leveraging in the States (mainly paying in cash since banks are still pretty stringent on their underwriting standards), so I think the ones left out will be heavily leveraged investors flipping a home that can't maintain cash flow.Maybe not government intervention, but maybe the Chinese mainland will just have a huge economic slowdown resulting in no more cash flowing in from China. 

Here's hoping you are celebrating a closing with some bubbly right about now!

  $100 is reason to celebrate!

A home where that family will celebrate holidays and make memories.Don’t get too sucked into the emotions though.

At the current moment everyone and their grandma are jumping up and down celebrating (wedding like) telling stories about how much money they made or will make in Real Estate.

I guess if the amount due on your performing loan is higher than the value of the property, and you set the min bid at that amount due, it's pretty much a given you will end up with the property in the end, but I don't think that's necessarily a cause for celebration...

 I recently investigated event insurance; to have 200 drunk people on my property celebrating a wedding was $110 and coverage for 1 day.

Plus you guys have all the celebrity flippers in your area.