Anyone know a bank in Syracuse area?

“There definitely doesn’t seem to be the pressure to buy that was there a little bit earlier,” said Greg Willett, chief economist at RealPage.The rental market has still slowed significantly from a few years ago, when rents grew by 5.2% in the third quarter of 2015.

Gerber http://amzn.to/1Bs4HEh Many people I talk to don’t understand that the difference between owning a business and owning a job is about building systems and Gerber does a great job of explaining it.One other book I almost hate to recommend but do because it does a really good job with why a team is critical and who should be on it is The Real Book of Real Estate by Kiyosakihttp://amzn.to/13bv4AO It reads almost like he wrote it to make up for some of the others that came out under his name.For a deeper dive Peter Linneman’s textbook Real Estate Finance and Investments: Risks and Opportunities, 3rd Edition http://amzn.to/10Jo5xR is Wharton MBA level knowledge served up by a guy not only started Wharton’s real estate program and ran it for 30 plus years but he’s done plenty of deals himself and now is chief economist at NAI/Global, one of the big international CRE brokerage firms.

I investing the Eastside of Syracuse.

Dotzour who is a real estate economist who served for 18 years as Chief Economist of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.He gone over lots of stats and facts about Houston market which was really good treat for investor eyes.

I always try to meet the housing people, the police chief (or station caption) and in smaller towns I meet the mayor as well.

His response was for 3 of us to carry them up . " Sorry chief , but you can climb that ladder over 100 times to get them up there , call me when you are done  " . 

I even talk the Chief Appraiser into calling and explaining to no avail.  

However, I know the mayor and police chief of Newark are both trying to revamp the city right now and are focusing on certain areas that may be worth looking into.

I had the chief building inspector come out and tell us what we needed and it was the following (not an exhaustive list) which ended in us killing the deal and the owner price-dropping a good 40-50k and selling as as single-family.