The electronics manufacturers are working heavily to keep it down so it doesn't increase their production costs but still....you never buy something at the peak of it's value and gold is at the peak of it's value, imho.

Tom GoansI couldn't agree more...BUTto get here I used a lot of leverage & in those days debt was @ 18%.There is nothing more satisfying than to be heavily invested & yet be completely debt free @ an early age.

It seems that the variability in profit for spec builds is heavily dependent on the market, whereas the variability in profit from fixers is heavy on renovation costs.  

These beach towns are historic vacation rental markets and rely heavily tourism.

@Kim Tucker was heavily involved with this issue and would have more details, if anybody wants to know more about this.

If you can take your $60k and reinvest it in a market you have a competitive advantage in, you'll probably do a lot better than investing it in an area that is already heavily populated with investors who live in their market. 

Then there's developers here who are heavily involved in Israel's bond market....  

Especially when the government taxes us so heavily in order to pay for them to continue doing so!

My company doesn't offer a match on 401(k) dollars so it makes the decision a bit easier.Before real estate I was investing heavily into the stock market.

I don't care who you are, that is a very smart move.We will see on Tuesday how it all plays out but it is interesting to see people rely so heavily on the characterization of political candidates as "stupid" or as some Democrats have tried to use lately "b-tch" or "whore", especially when they are factually wrong in how they came about that characterization.