Welcome from Grand Rapids home of the massive lake effect snow dumps!

We didn't really have a bubble or anything, but jobs are leaving the area faster than they're coming in and the foreclosures are rolling in at a fairly rapid rate.

Hard times all around.Really depressing.But then Grandville was bustling and so was Grand Rapids itseemed.

Shortly after we submitted an informal offer, the seller decided that they were not going to sell the property after all (the market was rapidly improving).

** A re-newbie is someone who invested heavily from 1998 to 2005, where all his mistakes were covered up due to rapidly escalating market.

I stumbled across a presentation that basically said, direct mail is the best strategy to produce rapid volume in short period of time.

The area is rapidly growing due to urban sprawl.

I went through Farmer's but the actual coverage is through Foremost out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.edit to add: I was honest and upfront with the agent about the property and what I was doing with it.

As you can see, I hale from the great city of Grand Rapids, MI.

The list is going to shrink rapidly in the weeks and especially days before the sale.