(wow mixed metaphors or something).Until we get back to making the things we use, and even exporting some of them, we're looking at a lowering of our standard of living until it equals out with the rest of the global economy.

These can serve as back up exit strategies.For example, once you have a reliable tenant with cash flow in a property, you can find a buy and hold investor who will be much more interested in the property, since they'll be spared the trouble of finding a tenant for it.You can also owner finance the property and then sell the note to another investor.† You can sell part of the note for cash now and have income later or sell all of the note at once.If you're having trouble finding local investors, online auctions can offer your property to a potential global market.Even in a soft market some homes will still sell at or near full market value.† Of course, you don't want to incur six months of holding costs waiting for your price so you have to get creative to make your property stand out.† One way is to "Go Green".† A few touches like solar hot water with a tankless water heater back up and adding rain barrels to the downspouts in order to maintain landscaping inexpensively even during drought conditions can put your property ahead.† Everyone likes ideas that save them money and if it is good for the environment too that is an extra bonus.

What's next in the bigger picture here?

The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major ...

Right now as I'm sure you knowthere is a huge buyers/investorsmarket going on, not just in thiscountry but globally actually!

The lovely thing about the internet is Globalization.

•The average age of someone who searches for property on the internet - 38•The Median Age of a text messager - 38•86% of of users who have a cell phone have used text messagingA quote about the text messaging industry:"These numbers are not unlike what we saw in e-mail response during the mid-1990's as the Web emerged an advertising medium," said Will Hodgman, CEO, M:Metrics, who also founded AdRelevance, the global standard for advertising measurement on the Internet.

There will be a formally regulated global economy possibly Government in 10-20 easy.from anouther post;"Socialist - yes, parts of the economy are now being socialized.

There will be a formally regulated global economy possibly Government in 10-20 easy.

Beth Brooke, global vice chair at Ernst & Young LLP, WSJ, Sept 30, 2008 "Blaming fair-value accounting for the credit crisis is a lot like going to a doctor for a diagnosis and then blaming him for telling you that you are sick."

Iceland, a long-time banking powerhouse, may be a huge casualty in the global financial crisis.