at least for a cool place to live and work.. if you can make money in real estate thats just a huge bonus.. dont forget about Lake Chelan another gem that is not well known however one of the great spots in this country. 

It seems that Delaware is quiet due to the fact of hundreds of gems with no TAXES to carry.

Reason for that is you may have a small industrial built in 2010 that can comp similar with a larger vintage property because of its rental income.  

We negotiated the short sale ourselves as agents and picked this gem up for $90,000. 

The banks know that these 30 year FRM (fixed rate mortgages) only factor interest monthly so paying extra like the above comment mentioned "does," save you interest but its only factored 12 times a year so instead of daily savings differenials you're waiting all the way till the next month for your lump sum payment of lets say $2000.00 to affect your amortization of your loan.The HOA product was originally started in Australia/UK and gradually came over but is still lesser known gem when used correctly.

Do you really think it is possible for every local investor to somehow have missed this gem of a deal?

The Tenant Applicants say the dumbest things thread is one of the gems of the BP site.

Hunting for properties is much the same ... most of what you find are merely rocks, but every once in a while there's a gem. 

It seems that some people's success comes from sticking to the rules while others comes from finding the gems that fall through the cracks.The biggest thing that stands out in this discussion is that what some people see as facts, others see as presumptions.

You can still find a few gems there but you have to work with an agent who knows that market inside out.