Rich, your 12 MPG Viper surely qualified, :D My company has a worn out fleet of minivans, but we were only allowed to turn one in, a 1997 Chrysler Town & Country with 193K miles.

Business is drying up and I'm thinking about investing in a multi family project or two within 50 miles from my base.

If 2 deals to do not total $7000, I will complete as many whole assignments until I have reached $7000.By the end of 2010 I plan to holding a minimum of 4 single family homes within the Oxnard/Port Hueneme area, preferably within a 2 mile radius of the Port Hueneme Naval Base.

Most of the real customers of health insurance "providers" have pockets that are miles deep and lined with gold.

Two years delinquent property taxes, boarded up by the city and they were over 1400 miles away.

You need to bring yourself to a point where, you feel like you're doing investors a MASSIVE DISSERVICE by not letting them by contracts from you.If you don't believe me, please suspend your disbelief for just 1 or 2 meetings and "Check out" whether or not it works, you'll be thrilled, I promise.I'll give you one more example before I gotta roll....I stopped going to REI meetings for over a year because I already had a line up of buyers a mile long, but one Friday I decided to attend their weekly breakfast meeting to drum up more clients for the Realtor side of my business..

When I refinanced my construction loan 4 years ago, they took comps from 10 miles away, not exactly a "comp."

Here's another zinger the risk is the same next door or 3,000 miles away.

I am now working on a new REO deal and the first thing I asked for was the DOM and DOMP for the last 6 months and with in a quarter mile of the property and now I see what ball park the price of the property should be in.

I live in Orlando, Florida and although the traffic is horrible, it has turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I am surrounded by distressed home owners and have 5 mobile home parks within a 2 mile radius and many more within a very short distance.