It's great to have another industry professional join our ranks.It's sweet that you have both experience as an agent and as an investor.

You've already got your foot in the door of the industry.

Hi all,Quick intro - I am a CPA working for big accounting firm in downtown Chicago, spializing large RE clients, REITs, and financial industry clients.

My business was really prospering, just in time for the market to tank and for AMC's to begin their choke-hold on the industry.

Government, an economic indicator that relates to labor, material and services.Marketing aspects of related industries, from timber to plastics.Insurance companies watch trends as it relates to new costs of construction and trickles through to premiums and losses.Hedge funds, the mortgage industry, securities, REITs are related to macro assessments.My point is that the closest aspect of macro numbers to your market is to motivation of buyers and sellers, temporary attitudes that may tell an owner "I should sell now" or "I need to hold off" but usually these temporary motivations or attitudes don't make it to the level of making a buy or sell decision, all such thoughts are simply indicators to form an opinion to lean toward further analysis of a personal situation.All real estate is local.

I owe another company in automotive industry, which is LLC and is classified as S-Corp.

And in my case, I have had the privilege of having some of the best mentors in my industry.

This title company is a reputable one, and they appear to be simply pushing the industry standard -- ie promoting fear -- when it comes to the Owner's Policy.

You stand out as the stop-dreaming-guy which is needed in this industry.

I'm looking forward to becoming more interactive.The podcasts helped me through my half ironman training this summer and the forums always contain a wealth of information.I currently work in the healthcare industry, but spend a great deal of my spare time developing algorithms to analyze properties!