I'm not that unique.

The more you work in real estate - whether you're painting houses, selling houses, or doing comparative analyses of housing markets - you'll start learning what you need to know in the niches out there that might be of interest to you.Why don't you start through some of the education and tools tabs from above and tell us what grabs your interest?

From what I've seen, OTE is becoming a new safe haven for young people who want the unique historic feel of German or Italian village but can't quite afford the higher prices.

However, I've been trying hard to determine what my niche market is going to be. 

There's the intellectual aspect (learning about different investment strategies, niches, areas; figuring out legal and tax strategies and implications; analyzing deals), the physical aspect (to the extent that I choose to do some labor) and the social aspect (networking with other investors; negotiating with sellers, lenders, contractors and potential partners).

His approach for the pre-approval is to customize each letter unique to the property we are making an offer on rather than one generic letter that pre-approves us up to a specified amount.

I decided to start shopping small apartment buildings and try a different niche.  

Also, there is the Ultimate Beginner's Guide (www.biggerpockets.com/ubg) that provided me with a lot of the basic information and helped me formulate what kind of niche I wanted to go into, as well as how I wanted to handle financing. 

You have certainly chosen an interesting niche.  

I got a unique lead today for a junkyard property in a metro area.