Some real estate investors that I know are going back to their old tricks of the trade for finding good deals.

Some of the core markets now are trading at crazy prices and really low caps.I have also seen where a house used to be worth 160k and at it's lowest point the value with foreclosures was worth 75k.Because pre-foreclosure and REO inventory has dropped that same house is trading at 92k within a span of 6 months.I have seen new home subdivisions start popping up as builders feel more confident taking a risk to jump back into the market to sell houses.I wouldn't really call it appreciation as much as a market correction and recapture as the bad assets are worked through they system.

.- Has 11 collections: $943 Medical (2011), $284 Medical (2009), $722 Citibank (2009), $1,086 Sprint (2009), $491 Victoria Secret (2010) shows as paid, and another 6 other collections for medical that amounts for $900 (2010)- In the trade section it also shows few other items that were "placed for collections": $45 Sprint (2011), $1,706 shows as closed by creditor grantor (2009), $4,775 Student Loan shows as unpaid balance charge off (2004), $22.1K Student Loan shows as unpaid balance charge off (2009), $1,189 Placed for collection (2010), $1,812 placed for collections (2010).Now, I do not know if this is typical considering the state of the market and economy as I entered the business only a year back, but based on myself and people I know, this seems to be awful!.

I'm an AGE troop by trade.

All, so you know I am a military comptroller by trade and I used to work at T Rowe Price as an investment counselor a long time ago.

There are always trade offs.

We've all heard the saying about being a "jack of all trades and master of none" he needs to pick ONE and master it!

She even offered a trade for it.

Another general indication is where A+ commercial trades with regard to Capitalization Rate, somewhere around 5% +/-.

Screen what you go after...Quality not Quantity.Not sure if this helps, there are rule of thumbs, tricks of the trade, experience, intuition, etc...