And these people lives with commision monies, he can get upset, would you be upset if somebody negotiate your salary even if you know you are doing a good job.I am not justifying his commision but he might be getting what he deserves and you are the person who can decide.And also my honest opion is that sometimes people intentionally talk about negatively about something and/or someone just to keep you stay away from him (why one more investor he should share his inventory !).

I have been speaking quarterly for a real estate seminar company in Vegas for a year.

I did go see Bruce Norris speak last week and an REI club.

GSG,Some of my loan products are no doc unsecured LOCs. i would want to speak to you.

Anyone can speak with their taxing authority and have the property reassessed, to lower the property taxes, but keep in mind that when the prices go back up, your property will be one of the first to be reassessed again to raise it back.

If you are in a negative cash flow position, find a way to earn some income to cover it, When the market does recover (which it will), you can then find equity in some of your rentals and sell them to pay off the LOC you over-borrowed from.

I'm not speaking to the long term value of the dollar, we are talking about why Americans are buying safes and guns.

Since I didn't, you simply get rid of me and you're free to do as you wish with the property.My credit is highly unlikely to be negatively affected because you're not an institutional lender and you don't report to the credit bureaus.

Speaking as risk to reward... the bandit signs have only pulled in one call!

Since we have no manufacturing base to speak of, we have no real way of creating wealth to get us out of this hole.