Jobs tend to be a bit better due to the influence from Boeing and the ancillary businesses that have grown up around it.

The Carnegie book on how to make friends and influence people has great reviews, its a classic.

Growing up in the bay area, do you believe that large influx of Asian buyers can accelerate or influence home prices to irrational price levels?

Roofstock has ZERO influence over the results.

It will heavily influence the strategy.

Most all will attempt to influence price from the lease payment, the purpose of turn keys is selling the lease and expected rents more than the value of the dirt, that is not the aspect of valuation most weighted in single family 1-4 properties.

That will influence your next steps.

How would you market your real estate to a border state where their influxhas influenced the market(example PA with buyers from NJ),

After some "drama" I bought a place of my own about a year ago and that has influenced my investment philosophy.

This makes a huge difference.One of the key points of the short sale is your ability to dutifully influence the broker price opinion (BPO).