I have been burned by trying to be buddy buddy with them, enough of that crap.

All the neighbors will call and many of them will know someone wanting to live in the area.You can always have a sign rider with your cell phone also.When I had them they were 50-60 a month so it sounds like a good deal.If you are an LO then dont believe the crap about giving it to your RE agents so they can be loyal to you.

IMHO that's why CA is so broke as a state. they are too high on their horses to let this market take its course and go through what it must go through in order to recover.as a "bulk buying bottom feeder", were paying over 50 cents in CA. it makes sense that buying 1 or 2 at a time would put you in the 75-80 range.as an investor, i say hold in CA. don't buy yet. their crap smells as bad as anyone else in GA and OH and their market will still get rocked.jeff

The last thing we need in this business is to add more crap such as the unethical guru salespeople who prey on newbie investors.If you can not communicate with your wife, perhaps the problem is with you.

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This really only increases the rents and decreases the vacancies, since nobody wants to buy, but everyone is looking to rent.It is still impossible to find a cash-flow property here unless you put a considerable amount of money down, and then your ROI goes to crap.

Yes, the subprime market is crap, but depending on the market people are still buying houses.

I have had to go through a lot of crap to find anyone good.

crap

Well - cook county recorder of deeds maintains an online database of real estate transactions and it turns out he was full of crap on the condo conversion.