Originally posted by "EricFoster":What goes up must come down...Eric,If you look at the long term trend you know that what goes up continues to go up.House prices are related to wages and inflation.Over a long period of time people fully expect inflation to continue and wages to rise over time.

Most I have dealt with are experienced enough that they know relatively close what the BPO would come in at and therefore ask for property info up front before they will agree to do it.

Investing is about making the numbers work and having a relatively emotional detachment to your investment portfolio.

Please recommend books that you have read and relate to what I'm looking to learn about.

West Suburban's Landlord Association will probably be your best resource for experts as it relates to rentals in your area.

Thats not even close and the example I gave would be a "steal" in relation to some of the garbage I see out there.Maybe all the sources I am looking at just have all the stale deals that are out there.

They offer stable returns for people who want to be completely hands off.They are relatively new in the work of REI.

If you buy it from your Aunt for $100K, and they all divide the money (sounds that's what's behind your other relatives telling her to take the $65K), they will be happy (ok, might be) for the moment.

Then carpet square it up.It is a relatively quick process, but obviously takes a few trips over a few days.

I cannot quite figure out what the right order is so I just go along with the prompts.Today I had a different but related issue.I was reading some new messages in my inbox.