Biggest mistake I see is going to vacation and then half of the 45 day ID period days are gone or an investor looking for a (deal of the century and not being realistic).

Don't be in too much of a rush, people have been making money on Real Estate for Centuries, a few more months for you won't make or break you.

Given this is the 21st century with internet & AI, you'd think the state governments would create an easier way to track all this!

This is a combination of the all time worst rent to purchase cost ratio and interest rates that are near the high for this century.   

Lol, Twin Cities experiencing growth, that's the understatement of the century. 

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I've bought millions and millions in loans from Capital One, Wells Fargo, Synovus, Ocean Bank, US Century Bank, Banco Popular and hundreds more.  

Basically his premise is nothing makes money like money and that's what creates wealth inequality.I recommend this Econtalk podcast interview with him, the economist host does not back away from challenging him.http://www.econtalk.org/thomas-piketty-on-inequality-and-capital-in-the-21st-century/

The issue with real estate transactions and why this is a century away and not decades is:1.

Here's a little bit of history:                                                                                    In the first half of the 20th Century Waco was a booming city on it's way to be just as large of a city as Austin or even Dallas, but in 1957 a catastrophic tornado hit Waco, destroying it's entire downtown area.