( this excludes the "serious buyers" phrase, but I would be willing to bet that if they had $30,000 in cash they wouldn't be wasting your time).If there is a native spanish speaker that can perfectly answer this post, then great, in the meantime I hope this has provided some value. 

I like the phrase of the "golden rule" he who has the money makes the rules, approach to investing.

Mark, I really like 3 of your alternative classifications of newbies: 1. determined amateurs 2. apprentice investor 3. energetic participant I think they are much more appropriate, perhaps one or all of them will catch on and become the "new word/phrase" I persoanlly will ignore Mr polictically incorrect and really don't care about how wannabie should be or is spelled.

Read that again, though, and note the phrases “causes of stress.”

I like to phrase this to the tenant as a "property health check".  

@Tobey Porter - Im not a plumber but was curious about your question so I googled it and found this:http://helptopics.us.kohler.com/FileManagement/Dow...Says limit of 1000 lbs vertical force (I like the way they chose to phrase that. :-)

People saying this phrase is the number one most dead-on sure-fire sign that a major correction is right around the corner.  

You can throw all these fancy words and phrases at me.

It's the best unit of measure, unless someone else has a better answer.Win/Win is on often used phrase, but does not happen most of the time.

At the end of the day, a willing Buyer and a willing Seller are what makes a market.Secondly, just as there is a current CAP rates at any given time in a given area to help price RE, there are also for lack of a better phrase, 'market norms' in leasing; both residential and commercial.