It looks like you guys are from my neck of the woods.

I was recently reflecting on how much rents have increased in my market in the last 10 years and am curious what has been happening elsewhere. My first apartment out of high school was a 2 bedroom POS that I rented fr...

In my neck of the woods bandit signs have worked well along with driving for dollars.

Gives us a chance to talk property too and flex my real estate muscle lol

However anyone owning a building near public transportation will be ahead of the game while the suburbs are going to dry up only bc im the only person I know who wants to own a nice big house with a yard and the red neck in me will build a bigger garage in the back but most of these young people who don't want to buy they all want to rent so they aren't tied down and can travel and than live down town with a short commute to work...Everyone has there own opinion but me I think that an out of the money call option on apple would be a better value than an 800k townhouse in some ex industrial area of Jersey or wherever it was because I already know the places with the good school districts and easy commute to nyc they were over built 10 years before I was even born so basically if you can afford it buy where you KNOW it is desirable AND If not it is a gamble at this point.

 I do have a good contact in that neck of the woods that helped me do some 5-10k flips this year in a hair over 60 days on both. 

I took it with IFREC who is up there in your neck of the woods if you live in Casselberry.

Muscle shoals,, what about yourself?

I know up here in my neck of the woods we are required to use ice barrier on the lower half of the roof to extend past atleast 2' from an exterior wall.

Prices are up 18.9% since last year in my neck of the woods.