It's the element of choice, or of feeling that you HAVE a choice, that provides freedom, not the amount of money coming in.

Come to find out they rank #1 as the fastest growing big city (population of over 500,000) in the US percentage wise.

Wholesaling is non-existent, seller financing is non existent, private hard money lending is called the "grey market" because more often than not it is controlled by semi criminal elements whom you don't want to be involved with, rehab-flipping is almost non existent (compared to the US), the SFH market is very small compared to the amount of apartments and is more often than not exorbitantly expensive,  taxes and regulations are very inhibitive, realtors are less professional and less regulated, transaction costs are very high- In short a totally different market and not one very suited for the small time investor looking to make a full time living. 

Two other Texas cities — Fort Worth and Corpus Christi — are in the top five on the large-city rankings — at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.

HTML5 helps section off a web page with new HTML elements introduced a few years ago. 

They are a collection of electrons and muons, a brilliant orchestration without modern historical precedent of all the conceivable elements that serve one purpose: ruin.

Everyone has their life woes, believe me, I probably rank up there with the best of them in that category, but a big national commercial tenant is much less likely to convince a judge they haven't paid rent in months, but they would be out on the street with their kids if they were evicted, or to call you crying when they can't make the rent and tell you why you should just agree not to make any money this month because their sister's boyfriend's cat died and it's been tough on the family.

Great questions, @Michelle FloresThere are a couple of factors, so I'll give you a long answer instead of a simple one.First things first, when we talk about condos in Austin, it's not really a type of home but the legal structure that we're placing over the property that defines common elements and limited common elements on a lot, enabling us to sell 2 houses on the same lot separately.

Like you pointed out though, what you need to get it for to make a profit is probably out of the ballpark for what someone else is willing to pay for it to keep it as their primary residence. you are competing with those buyers as well as other investors and other than the cash quick sale element of an investor's purchase, the buy and hold buyer that will pay market price will usually prevail to a bank seller.

Memphis, Tennessee, has the highest rental vacancy rate at 19.2 percent.http://www.zillow.com/research/falling-rental-vaca...Grand Rapids also ranks in the top of the Nation for growth within our city lead by medical development.