Some people want to do the best they can to make their personal names secret, and I suppose some states might be better at that kind of privacy than others.

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The restrictions are so tight on double closings because of agent secret profit RESPA issues.

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And there are plenty of "secret shoppers" posing as tenants to test you.  

There's no secret sauce here. 

one secret recipe is:If you have 100k cash rather than buying 4 cash flowing 100k midwest class C house, it's best just to buy one 400k house out of CO,HI,CA ; leave it for 5 years and sell.Usually, the rate of appreciation is higher because it's run from exponential rise, while cash-flow is simple rise.10% rising from 1 mil house is very different than 10% rising from a 100k miles.

Ive read that and many other motivational books. my favs are the master key system and the secret of the ages.

BUT here is the secret.

As 4 Your topic of "timing the housing market"A civil war general had a simplre recipe for success:"Get there First, with the Most"In Real Estate....a similar philosophy prevails for success....The secret 2 success is to find out where people want 2 go....