He basically wanted me to find an area on a graph that optimizes my investment...who knows.As for the question is he an investor, yes he's but I think his example was to purposely illustrate a poor investment as to open our eyes a little bit.

You only have to look at this graph from Robert Shiller's latest edition of "Irrational Exuberance" to know its going to get ugly at some point.

Additionally, I have set up a rewards system based on surpassing milestones within my goals.

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Or do your first rental deal but keep it pretty vanilla to start.Sit down and draw a timeline showing the major milestones along the way.

I have plotted a graph for a few of the cities including Portland and Seattle.In looking at the graph, prices will fall until they get closer to the infaltion trend line.

Actually, it is graph paper and prepared to scale.

Less than two days remain until prices climb to $250 from $200 for a pass to the conference.We're now over the 200 attendee milestone and I'm extremely excited about how things are coming together.I agree with what Will just said, and unfortunately, with what Nick said as well.A Call to ActionOne of the things that has struck me about the event more than anything else are the emails from people who think that we're going to be having our speakers soliciting some crap in the back of the room while on stage, regardless of what we've said.These emails are the very reason why this event is so important for us to pull off.

Graph the Fannie Mae 30YR for the benchmark.

VACANCY RATES:Below are a line graph showing vacancy for single family home rentals and multi-family rentals.