@David Song - In your opinion, is it better for an investor who has no time to research properties, go to auctions, analyze market trends, etc to purchase a property at a potentially slightly inflated price with positive cash flow to hold on to for the long term or to not invest at all?  

It seems to me that the Nigerian prince email scams are trending over to hard money now.   

Residential lending tightened up and many people became renters...a trend that has continued.  

Mail works, it's just taking more and more of it to yield the same results and it doesn't look like that trend is going to change anytime soon with so many people jumping into real estate and being told to mail, mail, mail.  

Amazon and other online retailers and convenience of buying online is increasing this trend.

Hey all,

I'm very interested in investing in Columbia South Carolina. It's where I'm from and the real estate is very affordable. However I want to make sure the market is right to sustain me. How do I analyze the ma...

I’m here locally in Charlotte NC born and raised and from what I can see buy and hold investors are seeing cap rates on properties in the double digits in the more affordable rent markets here cap rates trend to go down further away from the city you go.

I'm going to look for the latest moving van statistics as they can usually show the most current trend.

Now the trend seems to be- 'my little house is in an LLC and I can't refi or put a mortgage on it. 

This is really enlightening and I love your idea of having a mini-captive account!