The basics of a good real estate investment seem unchanged at the core: location, population growth, neighborhood demographics, supply and demand, surrounding amenities, etc.

I'm getting some grief from the local Housing Office due to their failure to understand complex real estate title holding strategies and the IRS TIN Matching program.1) The Housing Office wants to know who the owner of a property is by supplying a copy of the deed.2) They want to match the SSN/EIN of the owner for 1099 purposes using the IRS TIN matching service.Easy, right?

Because of the aforementioned variables slab on grade is common in Texas.

Until that happens you have a market that has way too much supply.

Go to a masonry supply center with this description to buy it.

If you pay 35% percent for a property in a market that is being artifcially propped up by banks holding REO's off market until supply is reduced, then you will likely be holding an property in a market that is still declining.

On reason, I believe for this, is nobody can credibly state what the proper money supply (level of liquidity) should be.

We skype all the time, I have family in Europe, friends in the Middle East and Coast to coast, skype is great.you can get cheap webcams for $12 at larger computer supply stores.

The only codicil is that you want to supply an estimated HUD1 filled out correctly via a title company stating that sort of thing.But possibly the best way to go is a negotiating company.

Eventually interest rates need to go up and the amount of home a fixed monthly payment can buy will go down, then the rules of supply and demand will kick in to drive prices back to a historical mean.