If you find a job that sounds super cool(marine biologist), but no one is hiring, guess what?

Purchase price: $535,000 I bought this first property with my VA loan while in the Marine Corps.

We are seeing the same phenomenon in Marin County CA from San Francisco.  8-10 calls on the first day we listed on zillow for a rental in San Rafael.

Afternoon all,I am a recently retired Marine looking to get into the RE/flipping game and am looking at a position with a company in Gilbert, AZ as a Construction Superintendent.

It's tempting when you see deals, but you have to let your first investment marinate and season for your own benefit and for future mortgage purposes.

I'm a Marine Corps infantry veteran (9-years, OEF) currently working as a Financial Analyst for an oil major.

Coastal California is far from perfect (sitting in the smoke and haze this past week down in Marin makes the point as well as anything) but our housing market has a proven track record of profitability and, despite all of the prognostications about our demise, millions of self-professed Cali-haters would descend on us tomorrow if our housing prices were suddenly reduced to the national median. 

I'm going to start my career as a merchant mariner within the next year so that I will have the ability to fund my REI.

That's been my experience in Marin County - good school districts are at the top of the renters' lists.  

Marin, it took about 2 months in total.