Don't get me wrong -- there's no reason to spend every waking minute learning about real estate investing, but it also wouldn't hurt to pick up additional strategies while you're going to school and adding additional weapons to your arsenal.

We will spend the next year or so acquiring the properties, can then we will go through all the neccessary steps to change the zoning and build a mixed-use building on it with retail and office space.

I have been checking sites and it seems in the last few days, since the $700 Billion dollar bailout, the prices on some homes in foreclosure have jumped dramatically.

In a true system of capitalism: The owner(s) spend the rest of their life or lives working until they pay the debts back.

I'm sure spending 5 minutes extra with these people will make it a lot easier for you to ask them to let you start making their payments for them.

With insufficient liquidity to meet its obligations, WaMu was in an unsafe and unsound condition to transact business," the OTS said.Seattle-based Washington Mutual has about $307 billion of assets and $188 billion of deposits, regulators said.

We need serious debate over this issue, before we hand over 700 billion dollars of our money.This reminds me of the Patriot Act.

I floated the idea to her today and laid out the arguement that it was better to never own a home as we can't spend the equity.

700 billion translates to $3000 cost to every man, woman and child in the US.

CA needs a $7 billion loan . . . anyone, anyone . . .