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Great Article Rich!

Unbelievable.

http://gma.yahoo.com/colo-family-tries-regain-home-occupiers-192530141--abc-news-money.html

I love the Pay it Forward sentiment...I know you said you can't read any more posts, but this one from LinkedIn is seriously worth the read: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131101150259-658789-pay-it-forward-give-and-ye-shall-receive

Found this article by Bill Gross of PIMCO.

The other day I was reading an article on communal living stating that it was coming back in various forms (thanks to the baby boomers) and there were a variety of situations and commonalities that the tenants have.

But ideally you'd want one who already has some RI clients with real estate, as RI has become a lot more tax-unfriendly to investors in the past few years.For example, they eliminated itemized deductions in 2011 (http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110327/REG/303279975) and also started treating capital gains as ordinary income around the same period (http://voices.yahoo.com/elimination-preferential-tax-treatment-capital-6915746.html).That said, one of my more experienced real estate friends in RI seems to be having great luck with someone out of Ohio.

I am not involved in flipping but know once the news stations start saying it the market will become about nonsense instead of numbers.It's kind of like a stock everyone is saying to buy is when the smart people sell to them and get out.I am sure we will see in the next 6 to 12 months articles like "The real estate money making machine is back !

I thought I would share this informative article from Paragon about Bay Area rents and prices over time.

Here is an article updating the problem with those areas.