I think Atlanta is still a great market and it's growing the way Austin and Dallas grew.

I grew up near many towns similar to this in upstate New York, so I am relatively familiar with small town dynamics, that is not a lot of moving, population growth, industry, etc.

My grandpa (he grew up on a large farm in Austria) told me that harvesting construction lumber was done during dead winter and only during waning moon, which is when the sap is at the lowest.

I grew up in Columbus and was thinking about buying a rental property.

I grew up in Yorktown Heights!

I plan to sell it and buy my first investment property, either a multi-family or a single-family that I can rent.I'm looking at three markets: Detroit (I visit regularly and like the direction it's headed), Atlanta/Macon area (I grew up there and still have a network there), or staying put in Chicago.

"how come the tree grew three times bigger from the time i quoted the job to the time i got the job"... kind of like any other contracting job.. :)

"This was your parents house, well wouldn't it be nice to spruce it up a bit and pass it along to a nice young family so they could raise their children in the same house you grew up in."

After all, I grew up without a dad, everyone on my mom's side was poor and living in trailers, and I was already leaps and bounds ahead of them.

For me personally, I "grew up" on the BP podcast.