Also @John Thedford, how did you get that cool signature bar at the bottom of your posts?

It is not very close to the campus/bars/party & music scene with lots of friends stopping by daily.

another good CA source that has come on the scene is Coventus out of SF   for the very well qualified borrowers.. and there simply is no denying that scammers work BP  its just a generic statement.. but if you like passive aggressive I can accept that.. as long as it saves some newbie from sending 500.00 to Jamaica  

Nowadays, people want an area to eat at the bar in the kitchen, especially family type homes. 

Being born and raised in the SF BAy AREA this strategy seems to have worked well for me.. but as you say SF is expensive.Pretty much every city has a up and coming area were things are changing resturants bars etc.. were you have chance of up side while the properties will pay for themselvesIn IndyFountain square  .. and BAtes Hendrix is coming on.In Charleston SCInner West side and Park Circle..  

You were at the fibi meet up at wiki's bar and grill last week right??

Deployments are great for stocking up a nice chunk of cash if you can avoid blowing it all on port calls (the inside of a bar in Thailand looks pretty similar to one in the States) and the inevitable post-deployment sports car buying spree (you'll see them sitting in the parking lot 3 months later when folks can't afford the payment, insurance, and gas).One of the hull managers (government civilian who manages shipyard repairs) I used to work with started out as a junior Hull Tech, saved like crazy so she could start investing, invested over the course of a 30 year career as she eventually pick up Warrant, and now has a multi-million dollar rental portfolio. 

It's walking distance from where I rent and the beach in a cool up and coming neighborhood full of restaurants, shops and bars.

It was previously a bar in its past life with the first floor interior walls knocked open and the stairs to upstairs removed and an outdoor access staircase installed.

So your competition might not be the bidders you see on the courthouse steps, but rather the investors talking to the mortgagor behind the scenes who will be redeeming the note in the 5th month.Also, you will find realtors attending the sale and you’ll see them writing down the purchase prices.