I know most of you seasoned landlords probably despise showings but I have my first one tomorrow and I'm pretty excited.

As others mentioned you can also look at the average day on market but for the sake of answering your question, you would have to pull up the number of listings in a neighborhood and divide it by the average number of sales in the last few months.They both will lead you to the same conclusions as to which neighborhoods are hot except that neither of them takes seasonality into account (slower winter months will affect your calculations and won't reflect what's going to happen this spring).

For most seasoned investors the inspection is more or less something you pay for to catch something you might not have yourself.

While I find season really effects sales I do not think it effects rentals at all (unless you're near a college).

I hope some of you seasoned investors will address my questions, which will be common knowledge to you, with sincerity and patience.

As the spring home shopping season heats up, buyers and sellers nationwide can expect very different experiences when it comes to negotiating power.

Someone originated that loan to sell, for a discount, without seasoning.

Although dog owners are responsible for maintaining their dogs, I would fix the fence and line the fence on my side with crushed pepper seasoning once every three months for a year.I own a pit bull and two houses down own three.

If that doesn't appeal to you either then perhaps buying all cash, perhaps in a less expensive area, then financing the property after it "seasons" would be an option.

Sub S thing, as soon as he's done with tax season.