Find out who the players are in your area.

Eventually I wouldnt mind owning a hotel, or even casino somewhere down the road.

This bothers me as it is akin to buying/selling stocks or putting $100 on red or black at the casino.

In an era where information rules, the small to medium sized real estate investor can NOW be a "Front Runner" AND a major player within the commercial real estate market!

The only way to make money over the long haul with Casinos is to simply own one.Poker is a good way to make money, because you aren't playing the house, you are playing others.

Now OIL is running out and we (and our leaders) are doing NOTHING to supplant it.The common thread in the case of the Dutch and the English is that the reliance on plentiful, and cheap energy caused a complacence because it was just TOO EASY to keep doing what they had been doing.A couple of parallels to this can be found in the cliche' about the old "buggy whip makers", and simlarly in the case of people who made, and delivered ICE back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.There were probably a lot of players in both industries, and as competition from refrigerator manufacturers and auto makers became intense, the remaining buggy whip makers and "ice men" were obviously the MOST EFFICIENT players in their respective markets.

article=3976-1This new bill is a major change in Ohio tax law and can put a hurt on your bottom line if you are a major player in the state of Ohio.

The problem with that is if it was a sure thing it would have already moved by the big players.

The prices are not outrageous and there is a lot of planned construction going on including casinos.

What you can do to get out of the gate is pick up an MP3 player and get as much audio information about Real Estate as possible.