TX will follow, but I certainly am not predicting the date it changes.

Sure, there are trends, history, and new developments that can lend to predictions on what areas may appreciate best, but I would rather count hard numbers (income, expenses, vacancies, management, maintenance, debt service, etc) and take appreciation as a bonus.

I can't speak for them personally, but Lowe's and HD appear to stock them...a quick google search will turn up a number of companies which make them.

I think inflation will still remain high in Argentina and the peso will continue to deval in the next few years...but, with the upcoming elections in the fall, many are predicting the release of many currency restrictions which prevent firms and individuals from exchanging local currency for USD and remitting back to the states.

I have spent the past 15 years grinding out various parts of my days, nights and weekends honing a stock market strategy that continues to evolve to this very day (minute).

Sitting quietly in the dark and taking stock of where we are is a lot harder - takes discipline.In music, we have notes and we have rests. 

Here is the issue with any predictive model:  its accuracy is directly correlated to the amount of historical data and how far out in the future you are trying to predict. 

Some call this diversification.Ranchinskiy Vasily: there are many private money banks/opportunities for investors to pool their money to lend to investors (whether they be real estate investors, stock market investors or business investors). 

However, for those of us who invest a long ways outside a major metropolitan area, such companies are nonexistent.Control is a major factor in our decision to invest in RE instead of stocks, mutual funds, etc.

I have a mix of some NPR programs, Slate podcasts and one for stock investing.