When you walk into the big box companies you see their products not their advertisements as well as I would display them, I would NOT have their products in inventory.

More specifically, you want to consider things like employment/unemployment, the overall job market, migration trends (in/out), housing market trends such as price movement, inventory and foreclosure activity.

Inventory is so tight right now that I've considered looking into foreclosure opportunities.

Reason being, they are some of the biggest players down there anyway and if anyone can get inventory, they can.

This is the reason that the inventory has declined and the market has gone from 100+ days to a much more normal 30-50 day turns.

Many areas have under 1 month of inventory and pretty much everything is moving quickly in desirable areas.Capturing true cash flow on your rentals requires living in undesirable areas in Austin.

also google "albuquerque real estate wholesalers" and call them to see what inventory they might have, and tell them what you want.

But who really knows.The big issue this spring is THE LOW INVENTORY.

But really, I can't figure it out because as you know, supply is so low in OC, I'm hoping to take advantage of that low inventory.

maybe when inventories are more "normal" and demand isn't spurred on b/c of the unusual circumstances (low mortgage, low inventory, high demand - hedge, small investors, & retail monies), i will be able to see more clearly.