The stock market was still in the toilet and the losses I and everyone else had suffered were still very fresh in my mind.

This is why Memphis is such a dead dead dead market along with so many other rust belt zero job growth cities.Learn how to sniff out where employers are moving, opening up new plants, divisions, hiring, then buy rentals in the path of that progress. 

Got married and for a while wife didn't want to do RE because her father "suffered" through it for years.

When you start including incentives, I fear some lesser GC's would use this as an opportunity to gain a little more cash and your finished product would suffer as a result.

@Michael Plante not al all it's a little too rustic for most.

@Ryan Plante welcome to BP.

I think that area is drawing a lot of attention due to the future location of a face book corporate facility and the Toyota plant.

Bay area suffered /  NOrthern CA suffered some pretty severe down turn in 1989 to 1992.. and it was not until about 97 that values got back to where they peaked.. then they shot up until dot com bubble and that was a blip.. then screamed up until 08 like everywhere else. 

Maybe you guys that had suffered from them should act together.

He planted the seed 2 years ago...Hi everyone.