Since the Dubai freehold property law was introduced sometimes 5 years ago the nature of the market has changed noticeably, with the first time speculators now giving way to more owner, thus resulted in inflationary house rental pressures.

Oil and natural gas are biggies here--but we've also been blessed by major downtown development: a new NBA franchise, a convention/restaurant/entertainment hub around our new Riverwalk, a new and expanding Dell facilitiy, Tinker Air Force Base, etc.

I would also like to grow my real estate buisness through rehabbing and purchasing buy and hold properties.

. :)And I strongly believe that without successful and systematized marketing, businesses will have extremely hard time growing in today's world.

We have all lived up until recently in a housing market that did nothing but generate equity and continue to increase in value as time naturally goes by....But as recent times have shown our golden egg does have flaws and an investment market that could never go down has slowly gone to hell in a hand basket.

- Lead list companies - Foreclosure.com - late on mortgage - Active eviction records - landlords - Probate/Obitiuaries - heirs - ect .. ect ...THINK AND GROW RICH!

However, as your portfolio grows, the risk diminishes because the cash flow from your properties will cover any big expenses that come up (assuming of course that you bought properly and have calculated your cash flow using real world operating expenses).

Branson is growing leaps and bounds due to the new landing and I am watching for the river boat gambling boats within 5 yrs. ( yup, been defeated once but I bet they try again.)

He found for me about 1/2 a second later.I would have liked to bought more Houston property as the market started to turn around in the late 80s and early 90s but was constrained by my wife, my natural (financial) conservatism and the fact that I was holding down a pretty good paying job that sometimes cut into my maintenance, repair and make ready time.I have always done (almost all) of my own work, that includes reroofing, pulling about 35-40 feet of termite eaten studs out and replacing them.

•As you grow, you might consider T.V., radio, phone books, billboards, street benches, bumper stickers, bigger commissions.