But if it's predicted that Cities will continue to grow as people move towards cities, then it only follows that other places may have a decrease in their population.Combine a loss of Driver type jobs, Manufacturing jobs, and a migration towards Mega Cities, and I think you get a good picture of which areas seem to be a good place to invest for the future.Combine that with Climate Change, then all of a sudden, Cities that are predicted to be Mega Cities, may have to shift to inland, since most of the Mega Cities are coastal.The point here is that there should be concern on where to invest, if only for Asset protection. 

I think the larger shift is that the world is becoming smaller, and as such mobility of the person increases.  

I drove that day and managed to cover 200 miles in my 10 HR shift.

I am a Tech Exec that decided about 6 months ago to dive in and research the holy heck out of how to best approach shifting half my investment capital to real estate from just Stocks and Mutual funds.I put my 4, 10 and 20 year goals together and then built a plan on how to hit each goal.Then I started networking and learning everything I could here, books and networking with friends and other investors.I initially landed on just going for appreciation in my town of Austin.  

The economist says that the guys in some of the towns such as Apex who approve new build permits and paperwork are more backed up than ever--once the new-builds catch up with the influx, things should shift  in the home buying and the rental markets, don't you think?

If ‘back of the envelope’ calculations show that a transaction is viable, I shift FIRST into performing due diligence, not on the subject property, rather on the operator or the seller.

So, we could see yet another shift in housing, lending and the availability of jobs to support borrowers and renters.I don't know where you could find all that in one place ...

Hello all, recently I've been getting a huge amount of commercial loan requests, normally I'm inundated with fix and flip applications but there's been a sudden shift for commercial.

I like the concept of streamlining it like this though !

Eventually, we do intend to shift to using another general, once we get more experience with the whole flipping process, etc.