This shifts incentive for the realtors within LS from providing good service and bagging repeat business to just be agressive in tagging properties.This is in stark contrast to the vendors who are not allowed to tag properties and thus always have an incentive to provide good service and gain repeat business.Remember you have already paid $10k, so you are going to work with the realtors within LS rather than external realtors.- LS uses a catch phrase "Real Estate is Easy, People are difficult" implying that RE is easy, you just need to be able to deal with various temperaments of various people involved in the sealing of a deal.

I always take physical delivery no etf's or contrasts.

This is in contrast to flx and flip, which is more like "active" investing or more of a job.

It is very heavily against the standard philosphy of - go to school, get a good job, invest for the long term - "for a reason" - to compare and contrast and to emphasize a point so it has more impact on the reader.

In contrast to conventional mortgage products, which frequently require downpayments of 10 percent or more of the purchase price of the home, single-family mortgages insured by FHA under Section 203(b) make it possible to reduce downpayments to as little as 3 percent.

I was driving along and saw an FSBO sign, called it and got a guy who's also an investor/wholesaler but, in contrast to the other 2 guys, deals in more high end stuff and in higher volume. claims he deals with 60 houses at a time sometimes.

I read an article that quoted an un-named source saying that GE Capital is trying to get as much money by 12/31 as possible-even giving salespeople incentives to talk customers into refinancing to another company or close accounts--in stark contrast to how they've been trained to get people to borrow more in recent years.

More of a contrast than a comparison butReal Estate=a BusinessStocks=an InvestmentI wouldn't recommend real estate to someone looking for an investment and stocks to someone looking to run a business.A closer comparison would be REITs to Stocks or Real Estate to Daytrading.Liquidity is a major difference.

In addition, properties flipped by others are going for less than they might otherwise be worth, absent HGTV, even when/if the rehab was quality work.Recently rehabbed rentals, by contrast, are still renting for a premium.

I have ~ $10k to put down on something to still have some $ in reserve just in case (currently employed for ~ $33k/yr).I'm driving around looking at various cheap properties in the area as I find them on Zillow and seeing large contrasts in the area -- what many of you would refer to as C- to D areas and some B to C as well.