When you start to notice "that's a high (or low) price" for a property in that area, that's when you start to know your market.I did this with newspapers, but there's a slick way to do this with today's technology using the realtor.com app.  

My rates in Baltimore are high, I will not lie.  

A CEO/CFO may have been lying all along about the real financial state of a company. 

Money is only of value when it is earning it's keep and lying dead in a property is earning no return at all.

So if I did successfully buy it, and the owner spotted it on the market a year later torn down or altered, can he sue me for lying about my intentions?

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Apparently I'm not quite the technological pro I thought that I was.

I have an online business and also work for a Santa Barbara based technology company as the Business Development Manager.

San Francisco will always be a desired place to build a technology company, whether it be silicon semiconductors or web services.

if it's their gut feeling or "based on their experience," it's a lie.