On a plus side for you developers, we are exploding with authorizations for new geotechnical studies and ESA Phase 1 studies so far this year at my day job.

Right now interest is too low because at zero.. savers are getting killed and the bond market is about to explode and the stock market has been going crazy because of inflation.

I have been considering getting into real estate investments for some time now as I live in Houston and the population has exploded in recent years.I will have a bit of extra cash later this year which I would like put to good use (10-20k roughly).

They can change the rules like they did to get rid of GRITs in 1990 but the game goes on.Honestly, I think my head would explode if I had to understand all the details.

I'm here to see how long before Duncan Taylor gets banned or his head explodes.

Those days are long gone but, the funding options today are about to explode because of recent changes in SEC regulations.Long before you need to worry about how to put the large deal together, do some smaller ones.

Before the foreclosure bubble exploded, my network of mortgage/real estate friends were noticing that lenders were not filing/reporting NOD's so as not to impact their reserve requirements negatively, which concealed the extent of the problem from the public for some time.

As it turned out, companies still needed to make money in that "new economy" and the dot-com boom exploded before our eyes.

The "stimilus" package has nothing to due with stimulating the economy itself but is really the governments best guess of how they can prevent having to spend this money later.If they were to let things be more companies would have folded (or at least called it quits) and the government unemployment rolls would have exploded so drastically that they would have easily have doubled the monies they gave away in unemployment claims, food stampt, and all those other programs.This is what I believe is the real drive behind this and the government is going to get a little upset that their ploy did not work and take it out on those of us that have found a way to make money.

Prices have dipped, it's definitely a buyer's market, and properties stay on the market for substantially longer than they once did here, but for the most part you didn't see the complete bottoming-out that other cities struggled with (and during the boom you didn't see exploding prices, either).