Or do appraisers get some kind of special golden ticket that lets them review the MLS data created by the Oompa Loompas?

The Golden Rule is important.

They tear out walls, do very bad paint jobs.Somewhere floating around on the web are photos of "the golden throne".

That’s true not just of international preconstruction investing but of every investment: from Ponzi schemes to worthless stocks, from Enron scandals to confidence men selling the Golden Gate Bridge… both inexperienced and seasoned investors must cast a wary eye on the opportunity and the person offering it.

International Preconstruction investing is not about pointing to a spot on a spinning globe and saying “let’s look for property there.”

When others culled thosesprawling farmsAnd welcomed deals with open arms . . .A corner here, ten acres there,Compounding values year by year,I chose to think and as I thought,They bought the deals I should haveThe golden chances I had thenAre lost and will not come again.Today I cannot be enticedFor everything’s so overpriced.The deals of yesteryear are dead;The market’s soft—and so’s my head.Last night I had a fearful dream,I know I wakened with a scream:Some Indians approached my bed—For trinkets on the barrelhead(In dollar bills worth twenty-fourAnd nothing less and nothing more)They’d sell Manhattan Isle to me.The most I’d go was twenty-three.The redmen scowled: “Not on a bet!”

here's the GOLDEN RULE for real estate investing:if you're buying at market value - you're not investing and you're not an investor.

Business is being done all over the globe now almost as if we all lived in the same city.

hey Golden - I may not have the greatest advice in the world to give you as I am a newbie rehabber, making many mistakes (read a couple of my posts, they seem to scare a lot of newbies), but reading your post, I just feel ya-I am a 29 yr old single woman, I have two kids 13 and 6.

Bruce Norris, has to say, we should see additional gain in 2014 for the Golden State.Mehran K.