I'm interested to learn what sectors, besides the State, are high employers in the area.

I suggest not trying to reinvent the wheel much like SV is doing, but finding a fragmented business sector where people are already paying for services and the competitive landscape has lots of small companies. 

Good deals can still be had and I am working with a bunch of investors shifting focus to multifamily and the commercial sector where it's not crowded and overpriced and overheated.Residential long term rentals still make sense for cash flow versus purchase price compared to other markets here.

They have no concern for the community they are developing.I could not tell you how many times a real estate agent claimed the property was "cheap", going to appreciate, and was a terrific buy.Presently, the studies I am reading are suggesting the largest sector of present-day real estate buyers have been for more than a year and remains investors.

With the understanding that today’s valuations are justified and forecasts of fundamentals are strong, market participants can be confident that the positive attention that the multifamily sector has drawn in recent years is not doomed to a rapid shift downward and that multifamily markets remain healthy.

I didn't mean to sound insensitive, I was trying to make an impact about the value of keeping our freedoms in a business sector that deals with our very existence.

The government now controls key businesses in key sectors of our country, including the banking industry, mortgage industry, insurance industry, and auto industry.

If any Federal money was needed at all, it should have been offered to the successful companies to cover the needed duties in the financial sector when Citibank et al failed.Or, as I frequently put it "The financial sector might need a Citibank, but it doesn't have to actually *be* Citibank."

Unless banks have started doing No-Doc loans on a massive scale again, I see the residential sector as having a fairly sound foundation. 2008 is still fresh in the minds of many lenders, and everything I've seen says they're still being appropriately restrained.

Not only are prices inflated due to the tech sector, the state and  local government policies are geared toward political emotions, not economics.