He especially loves their idea of sending a 3X5 Postcard of a house for sale & mailing it to the neighborhood it is in, to get buyer leads.

When a house jumps 10% in a matter of weeks and suddenly the whole neighborhood jumps, and then a domino affect back and forth, it's no wonder there was a bubble.

After all is said and done we will have a brand new 3 family home in a decent neighborhood for 155K.

Prices were sky high here well before the dot com boom and bust and depending on neighborhood, not only are those prices still supported but they continue to rise.

www.Backpage.compass out flyers in the neighborhood in case anyone has friends that want to move close by.

When I started out, I drove through neighborhoods looking for vacants and wrote down addresses and info on about 100 houses.

Their appraisal will absolutely come in lower, for reasons that are yet another point of discussion with regard to the appraisal industry.The only way you are not subject to such scrutiny is if you have a cookie cutter house in a neighborhood filled with recent sales of like houses.

Clarke, welcome to BP...Some things off the top of my head include....a) Churchb) Fitness clubc) Pick a nice neighborhood and saturate it door to door just shaking hands.

The only other trend is parents buying houses in formerly great neighborhoods for kiddies.

It's not just that some people are different in private.No matter how nice the neighborhood, the bad guys have cars.