He suggests that the regulation of banks has served to create even bigger banking giants, and has thus increased the “too big to fail” problem.

@Matt Turcutto Most real estate investors and realtors fear the hang up or are not able to locate correct phone numbers for the sellers they are looking for.

I moved here with my parents when they immigrated in 1978 or so, and I've lived , went to school and worked here since then.I'm not so sure I would call real-estate here a "boom-bust" cycle so much as a continuous upwards trend with a few notable reversions to sanity and one very notable boom-bust cycle (which the entire nation seem to go through at the same time.)I've never met anyone here that has ever thought buying was a good idea at anytime, myself included.

But if it works in a "giant tin box" it should work in your home. 

I have gotten a fair bit of advice that if I'm not able to be out there to oversee things and manage myself then it is not worth the risk to turn it all over to a management company/manager.

I would be slightly weary of accepting section 8 tenants that I was not able to screen.

Since it is a mixture, they are not able to drain it, so I have to get a hold of another company to give me an estimate.

Sometimes she is not able to get me info right away (I am not her only client:) and I would like to start making offers directly to the selling agent when necessary.

Their origination and underwriting is a hot pile of inefficient Pentagon-like crap, which is why they have that giant 100 basis points origination fee.

And further, if that is the case, are we expected to refund them for days they are not able to occupy due to a mandatory evacuation?