You’ll run in to not only local competition but national competition as well as people do want the best of the best selling what often times is their retirement plan.

It is not a campaign speech, it is not a "I am going to do" speech, it is not a "about me" speech (Obama mentioned himself 114 times last night).The State of the Union is 10% Unemployment, soaring National Debt and a neophyte President.

Just wondering now whether the original post's "prominent bank in my area" was a local community bank that would do such lending, or whether it is a branch of one of the national banks ...

I suspect that there isn't a city anywhere in the country that doesn't have at least one convenience store, restaurant, gas station, and a motel owned by an Indian national.You'd have to look awfully hard to find any sort of real estate service that couldn't or wouldn't do business with a foreign national.If you want to only have rentals that rent to Indian nationals, there will be a population in any big city, but I'd better warn you, it is seriously against the law, here, to discriminate based on race or nationality.

Just in time for the AZ law to work its way through the most overturned lib court in the nation, 9th circuit, I believe.

Most of the money sent via Pakistani Government will end up further enriching the billionaire prime minister.I also hope the government of Pakistan will focus its efforts more in the future on the betterment of its people than in fomenting terrorism in Afghanistan and India.Pakistan wouldn't be such an impovrished nation if the Government ever had its priorities straight.And, looking at the aid graph, it seems that the U.S. is by far the largest aid donor to the flood victims.

Way to go Bryan and BP Nation.

Your statement of "do your own research" goes entirely against what BP Nation is all about.

I simply look to sales and permits in my local area since that impacts the market I'm interested in and it does not really relate so much to national trends, at least to the extent that makes any determination on a local level.

I am searching for a credit union that:1-keeps their loans in house, no overlay on the number of loans2- Preferably no seasoning required3-Would lend in NJ