Brandon's story epitomizes one's hard work, dedication, constant growth, and the ability to grab an opportunity by the horns and own it, and not merely be beneficiary of timing.

The last recession was more location specific than property type or economic group specific: certain areas of the country got hit super hard across all asset classes and are just now recovering while in other areas appreciation merely slowed down a bit and maybe had slightly higher than normal foreclosure rates but most people weren’t directly affected unless they had to sell off stocks or lost their jobs.

Truly judges are reluctant to give title to someone’s property to another -particularly a “mere squatter”.

I am merely just making my case, and listening to yours.

For mere mortals, time in the market wins out consistently.

Sorry if I sound all crunchy and salty hahaha, I've just had to explain this a million times on this site because the whole 1% thing is the metric most BiggerPockets members are using even though there are at least 10 other ways to analyze and investment property.When it comes down to it, here in California cash-flow is merely the icing on the cake.

Risk is neither good or bad, it is merely matters of degrees from low to high risk.Arlington is a very low risk market.

And two of them were merely reports of someone stealing a license plate.

At that point it's merely a numbers game.

I was showing a home recently that had some wear and tear from the 4 rambunctious young boys living there, and was merely in need of a little elbow grease and some TLC to really make it shine, but was otherwise quite nice.