their pitch is just so much more enticing than the real road to successful real estate careers: hard work, long years of education, familiarity with a specific market, and above average intelligence to recognize an opportunity along with the guts to risk your capital (having risk capital helps alot too!).

I think the "will you be running any type of home based busines" question should be part of the initial phone interview, not as a qualifier or disqualifier, but because the answer would influence considerations for rent, deposit and other items for negotiation.

Its an entrepreneur magazine and they do in depth interviews with the those who are rich and not so famous.Aside from that I use BP (duh lol) and Activerain (but I do have to say they are not investor friendly so i just really lurk there and don't participate )

While Frank is a successful real estate investor with two other books that pertain more directly to real estate, this particular book is one of the better ones for principles of success that you can apply to your life including practical, actionable things you can do to change your life using each of the principles.The first two are the most important: Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life- and the odds are, for the vast majority of people your highest calling has zippity doo da to do with real estate.

Originally posted by Tom Cullen:The growing consenus is that the Obama admin took too long to recognize the scale of the environmental impact the oil rig explosion posed.

Recognizing the deal is the key.

Every television interview of her was many hours long and the major networks took her weakest 10 or 15 minutes over the many hours and showed that as SARAH PALIN.But, she is making more money now than Obama, so I guess all is well!!

Interview various brokerages, let them know exactly what you're looking for (and NOT looking for), and don't settle for one that will make it more difficult for you to invest -- the goal is to make it easier.Generally, the smaller brokerage firms are more lenient when it comes to working with investors, but there are definitely exceptions to that rule.

Eddie, there have been several interviews with various congressmen and AZ leaders that have stated or been told that all 1200 will be used for jobs such as processing and booking illegals.

True, if you find one that doesn't have their head up their @$$ and doesn't read negative press like this:http://activerain.com/blogsview/1691636/is-short-sale-flipping-criminal-activity-"In addition to banks losing money, this practice damages the unsuspecting homeowner who is selling the home in the short sale because they then face the possibility of a higher deficiency judgment if the lender seeks to recover the unpaid balance, or if there is forgiveness of debt, a higher income tax bill (unless the homeowner is exempt under various tax forgiveness plans of the IRS).Borrowers are "on the hook for larger deficiencies," Ann Fulmer, vice president of Interthinx said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.