The speakers really know how to sell you on something, but that's not necessarily a bad thing as long as you have the intelligence and awareness to determine whether or not it's something you need.  

Zoning - Vancouver city council is an interesting beast; they'll allow huge condo developments on some areas, but are very strict in others - overall it's a big artificial constraint on development with very high fees (that then get passed to the consumers) - but that's not much different than many other cities.5.

with all of these folks off shore I would say 99.9% of them are Nigerian scammers. and they are targeting you  a beginner who knows no better.. but your rational and intelligent so you can see that this seems a little too easy right.... send a few e mails and they promise you a 2 million dollar loan at 2% you just need to buy this Bond in Thailand to secure the repayment its just 5k for the bond etc etc. 

I have no experience in real estate, and I come from a mechanical background, but I have the thirst for knowledge, the intelligence to learn, and the fiery will to pursue and create.

If your goal is to use bigger pockets to find intelligent partners an establish a Profitable realestate holding company.

I wanna be an intelligent investor in a place like India and really support others like me too.

Personally, I cannot afford to waste time on low ballers when there are so many other intelligent, qualified, legitimate and rational investors to work with.  

BIGPOCKETS has a lot of intelligent members here.

Buyers would feel like they were being looked out for by the sellers agent but in fact that seller agent was gather valuable intelligence for their client ( the seller ), regarding the buyer. 

However, artificially low interest rates actually create cheaper credit, boosting demand (not the quantity demanded at a given price) for real estate (in theory): they push the entire demand curve out.