We are most concerned with current and recent "consumer debt" issues.

Yet my perspective is that although real estate valuations are increasing, it is at least partially contributed to by the same loss in purchasing power effecting consumers and investors in the grocery aisle. 

If a seller thinks you’ll take forever to close or give them a potential headache over a repair or beat them up on the price ..they’ll go with who has the first benjamins waving in the air instead

DefinitionsAs used in this subchapter --(1) The term "Bureau" means the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.(2) The term "communication" means the conveying of information regarding a debt directly or indirectly to any person through any medium.(3) The term "consumer" means any natural person obligated or allegedly obligated to pay any debt.(4) The term "creditor" means any person who offers or extends credit creating a debt or to whom a debt is owed, but such term does not include any person to the extent that he receives an assignment or transfer of a debt in default solely for the purpose of facilitating collection of such debt for another.(5) The term "debt" means any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay money arising out of a transaction in which the money, property, insurance or services which are the subject of the transaction are primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, whether or not such obligation has been reduced to judgment.(6) The term "debt collector" means any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another.

I am currently underwriting insurance with a local provider, but I'm not trying to be in the insurance industry forever.

This can make it difficult and time consuming to do your due diligence for a particular sale.  

Please know that great things don't last forever.

The new platform is for consumers interested in a product or service to conduct an internet search for information on that topic; they may go further and contact the provider of that information to move forward with a purchase, sale or other transaction.

It seems to be very popular with high school kids, but the college age kids and even young adults are the main consumers.

The fed has stated they intend to keep interest rates low for several years.My advice would be to buy rental property to keep FOREVER.