2) Avoid Misunderstandings - be up front and clear about every aspect and with every person - Do Make full disclosures, put it in writing, people have bad memories3) Avoid putting your (career) ladder up against the wrong wall and climbing it - Do think about what you want for an outcome and walk the steps backward on paper to outline how to get where and who you want to be

The residential prices have climbed on Seneca though (all ships rise the the tide).

If I was where I used to live, 1000 miles away, I'd been climbing the walls waiting for information.

COMPs are much more sophisticated than simple CMAs, COMPs are the best Marketing forecast, done by Marketing economists such as university professors who teach Marketing Economics.With a glance at today’s economy, we can forecast the answer by watch the trend of the first 1-6 point and analyze point  7 and 8:1- Consumer confidence index is it up or down2- Business confidence index is it up or down3- Bond yield is it up or down4- GDP on the rise is it up or down5- The Stock market is climbing or declining6- Interest rate is it up or down7- Quantitative easing: What does that mean?

If he got in a bind and had to sell,  or if the lender had to foreclose, there's equity there, much more so than I had buying my house in 09 with FHA, first time home buyers credit, and zero out of pocket.So while I'm not offering to personally loan or to guarantee the loan to help this friend out, I hate to see someone who's worked hard to climb out of a rough past not be able to take an opportunity to capture some equity and an asset by buying a house he's already paid $80,000 in rent to live in.

The kittens are harder on your legs, mistaking them for trees to climb, than on anything else!

If you're confident that prices will continue to climb, then invest.

If it is a crawl space I outsource it, don't like climbing under there.

The problem is you see a high percentage of market rate, shortage of affordable housing and when interest rates climb, economy changes, there will be a frenzy of concessions in the class A arena that unfortunately pulls down B/C.

Also rates have been climbing so a 4.5% rate may not be possible.