To be fare I AM RETIRED, manged projects up to $7mil and it is in my blood.

Stowe is a nice resort but way to rich for my blood.

Cash buyers sniff around 24hrs a day just like sharks searching for blood.

I have been searching for my first property day in and day out for about two months now, and with the market being incredibly competitive where I live, I managed to get approved for a perfect flip house by the blood bath we call Fannie Mae!

Dale - Start reading the forums . . . start with the Starting Out and General Real Estate Investing forums and then figure out what area of real estate investing gets your blood flowing, and what works best for your family and its finances.

I guess you should also be warned that once you get that first deal done, it seems to get in your blood and you can't wait to find the next one, what starts out as a little investment becomes a fixation of sort...At least it did for me.

We put a lot of blood sweat and beers... oops I mean tears into our last two houses and got emotionally attached to both of them.

It might be time to put a bit more blood in to a make a sale at a price that will make you whole or better.

Market Analysis is the life blood of any investor.  

And more importantly, would that create bad blood?