This is what I've been predicting for my specific market for a while now (though every market is different).

Funny how you always tend to do that sort of thing after getting argued into a corner...Well, not really funny, but predictable...

This is why BP's stock price went up after the announcement of this 20 billion escrow fund.

No, I have no stock in Insta-hang, but I just saw an ad on TV for the little gizzmo that drives in pins in walls to hang pictures.I required the use of pins in my units for years, I showed them how to drive or press them in at an angle to hang stuff.

Since we have not seen such low rates in our generation it is hard to predict when and if interest rates will return to levels before 2008 or 2000 for that matter.

While it's practically impossible to predict what a neighborhood or street will look like in 30 years certain areas obviously appear much better than others.

After paying known, fixed expenses (taxes, insurance, rental license, PM), the 50% rule predicts he will have $2470 left for vacancy, maintenance, etc.Brandon, I think you'll be fine.

While there are never any guarantees, I know there are things that can be done to predict when a tenant will be more responsible.My hunch is that a person's wealth has very little correlation with their willingness to pay their rent.

Bill - if you have a lot of retirement funds and you are wanting to allocate some to RE... that is good... but if you only have 100,000 invested for retirement you might want to invest it in stocks and use non-retirement funds for RE investing.

I started about a month ago putting my savings into stocks, and I have a strategy in mind that will probably be a nice boost.