If you wholesale you know precisely how much work is to find that one guy who's willing to sign a purchase option contract.

If you look at the chart below, you will see all the first gate ways for Koreans in the 1980s.

@Ryan Blake that was very informative and precisely what I needed to know.

looking at this chart, it looks like ~5yrs (for a boom at least)find other charts here

I can't say enough about how impressed I am by his analysis, charts and predictions.

Our accountant liked it and made just a few changes to the chart of accounts though.

After all expenses my NOI is between $13,000 and $14,000 in the first year, with it charting upwards in each subsequent year.

What the banks/asset managers are realizing is that they don't really have to discount these REO's much, if at all, to sell them.I just pulled this chart yesterday... inventory is way down, and prices and closed sales are up.  

Precisely because they know how to utilize PACER and local court records to determine if things have indeed fallen through the cracks.

If you look back at the S&P chart you see in the past 30 years before the boom it was always steady and FLAT.people say vegas properties cash flow for rental..well with that said you have to do all #'s and see what kind of actual cash on cash are you looking for investing.Its tough competition for smaller value properties and I cant imagine vegas pricing shooting up near where they went back in 2003-2004.when AI moved to vegas years back it was because it was so cheap to buy a house and that's the way vegas needs to be.Its considered a warm state with all the mothernature problems so many people moving out here because of warm weather, unemployment is high but still a very beautiful city to live in.will prices go up or down???