@Tim Jones  The areas you mentioned are the suburbs, typically higher density properties are closer to the city center, where the burbs are waves of houses.

Longview has had a really big (for this East Texas town) crime wave as of late. 

We're in a heat wave right now - it's about 25 degrees outside! 

You should be able to find someone to carpool if you want to go there and breath some fresh air and hear the waves crashing. 

@Karl Krentzel  on another thread that was going around yesterday there is a bunch of fraud going on right now with bogus buyers and sellers trying to snake small dollars out of investors.And for that reason alone many Realtors chimed in that their brokerages now require verified prequals before they will show property or write offers.. this to keep agents from getting abused and others getting ripped off by this new wave of Nigerian sucker stuff.And again along with the reality at least in our market No prequel and your not going to buy much if anything..

Get educated, learn all you can and you can ride the waves that come.  

Final passage, after decades of planning, will be the waving of the green flag that starts this new land rush and I started preparing for it five years ago. 

I think its a very sad commentary on parents and the education system that so many people give this drivel so much credit.If I learned anything from that con man I'd be embarrassed to admit it.However, what I have learned on here is that many successful people are not ashamed - they hold up their previous ignorance as a badge of honor and wave this book like a bible.  

All my tenants (25 of them) know where I live and they see me at the grocery store and they wave when I drive by them on the street.

For now we are ridding the wave of vacations short term rentals.