That says a whole lot about their industry.To be as respectful as possible  Randals post is just pure fantasy and no where near how real estate community works..

Not sure what their fantasy is.Your second question: 3) which areas do you absolutely avoid and why?

Leaders that make decisions based on fantasies are going to see their states financially ruined by the consequences. 

But knowledge without action is why there's so many who buy into the get rich fantasy but not the go-out-there-and-work-it part. 

Seems like common since but you'd be surprised how many people think they can jump into real estate as if they were running a kool aid stand on the street corner, probably get more money wearing a sign that says "Please help, God bless".I guess they watch too much TV and then have fantasies about being wealthy, try the lotto. 

Just curious to see if you had any input; or if I should just keep the fantasy to myself, and look to invest in real estate in a more pragmatic way. 

See, this is the problem with chasing the fantasy of designing a nation to be all top-end.

But until then, this has been an damaging, emotion-filled squabble about something that happened on Fantasy Island. 

This is the new trend in my market, Buyer commitment is waning, but Sellers are still in fantasy land thinking their house is "the one" and that Buyers will "fight" for it.

Bill Gulley   your description of the deal is pure fantasy or wishful thinking .. at least on the west coast never going to happen...