Even if you are skeptical of those statistics, if you are unwilling to pay a 3% buyers agent commissions the amount of leads coming to your property will be massively reduced.

Massive upscale construction is underway so expect area will lean towards A- in coming years 

Saumya, my last purchase 9/17Class B areaClass C property115K$1500- closing + attorney$1500 Misc, cleaning paint, plumber_______118K totalIncome 16,800Expense 7200Net income 9600Will do about an 8% ROIOak Park ILCook CountyOak Park is in the process of massive luxury condo and luxury apartment construction. 

Those 5-10-20 year goals may be massive but you'll have to bring it back to the present time to get started.

After getting the addresses of all the owners, we sent our massive mailing out that consisted of 25 letters. 

You can make use of a massive amount of information (maybe starting with the the Podcasts) and use it to the best of your ability in our local market - here in South Africa. 

@William Glass I absolutely agree with holding off until a clear winner unfolds and Warren Buffet's rule has been a personal favorite of mine for a while now.

The last market crash was highly correlated to real estate largely due to the misuse of CDO’s, but if another crash occurs it may not neccesarily be caused by real estate and thus have massive impacts on real estate markets like it did in 2009.

We are blessed to have this opportunity but it was definitely a massive sacrifice and alot of hard work.

We even managed to avoid falling for the sales pitch at the end to sign up for the massively over-priced "Mentorship" program, realising that with a little (or a lot!)