I had spent many years in Boulder CO, where they had the brilliance to buy up all the available land around the city and turn it into open space, so that sprawl could not happen, driving values through the roof, and providing an excellent healthy buffer to create an even better lifestyle.  

2) Have a healthy contingency 3) Just because a buyer has the highest offer, it doesn't make them the best deal. 

Excellent job Craig, good to see that you still made a healthy profit. 

I don't know how it is in your county but in mine the septic/Board of Health is notorious for this kind of low level corruption.

Even though I might not be interested in the property, I think it is healthy to go through the exercise of figuring out its property taxes, estimating what the property could rent for, estimate what the property could ARV for, and then to see what the cash-on-cash return would be if I wanted to pursue it.

With all the demand for our city, I believe that even with a healthy correction property values in Columbus will stay stable.

We are seeing extremely healthy appreciation and at the price point you cannot go wrong.My favorite areas at this price point would be a small 3/2 in Gilbert (85233 & 85234) some areas of Chandler, and Tempe (85282& 85283).

The Fed has reduced sales of Term Auction Facility loans to commercial banks by one-third and is letting a money-market lending program end in October.In June, the Fed extended other emergency-loan programs by three months to Feb. 1.“The Fed realizes that the markets are getting better but are not yet healthy enough to stand on their own,†said Scott Buchta, a Chicago-based strategist at Guggenheim Capital Markets LLC.

What factors would I want to look into that would indicate an enviroment healthy for buying, rehabbing, and selling?

Healthy networking, happy new year and prosperous investing to you.Kudos,Mary