I heard the other day google with its investment in sidewalk labs believes Toronto will be the largest tech hub/employer in North America after San Francisco...That being said, all the negative sentiment that we hear in the news is rhetoric.

In that respect, I agree with the "too many hands in the cookie jar" sentiment.

Cody Croslow - I am going to echo a few of the sentiments on the previous comments especially J Scott, Will Barnard and Josh Dotzler.

HI John E.Wow I will echo others sentiment that it is awesome that you are thinking so far ahead and are looking towards securing your future at such a young age.Keep reading and listening to things and you will be in good shape.

You'll find a very strong sentiment here against paid education which I do not agree with.Education doesn't cost - lack of education costs many times the price of any education, but you still must weigh the value of anything presented to you.

In regards to that sentiment, I hear it a lot from people, but I have yet to experience a lot of late night calls.

And this anti agent sentiment were people think they need to be " big shot investors" or house flippers etc is so korny they really don't understand about a career .. 99 % of these folks on BP will either never do a deal or flame out within 24 moths.So to my agent I was speaking about he has been in the PDX market for 12 years now..

With REIT managers and Securities companies having positive sentiment, it sounds like there could be an upside to the real estate market, and with higher job growth due to the stimulus, there will be increased demand for rentals and/or property, and lack of supply will cause rental and/or property rates to go up as well.

I agree with the sentiment of what you say.  

Hi @Jacob Emens - I agree with the sentiment shared by @John Barrett.One of the things I coach my house hacking clients on is to evaluate the property in two ways: (1) Do the numbers work while you are living there?