ssed me off, but it was a good deal on a nice property in great shape!

Drew,I have no choice but to call you out on this one, if for anything else, doing an extremely poor job:Lets me share a couple of links to prove my point.http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/should-agents-be-required/217187/http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/Should-Zillow-management-start-enforcing-their-Good-Neighbor-Policy/217146/http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/Zillow-welcomes-Harrison-Painter/216013/http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/Five-Reasons-Not-to-Buy-a-Home-This-Year/198421/You will see a trend of attacks.

Honestly, the real estate industry is 20 years behind current marketing trends.

it's the banks/lenders property unless you paid for it. besides, many credit reports pulled by banks/lenders are very difficult to read by the common folk. it's not like the pretty ones you get when you pull it from sites.www.annualcreditreport.com is a COMPLETELY free site. you are allowed to pull once a year from each bureau. also, keep in mind that when you (the consumer) pulls your own credit report, it does NOT go against your score in any way, shape, or form. i, myself, have an id alert that i get through work that gives me 24/7 access to all 3 scores an reports. pretty awesome stuff.

Theoretically, if you believe in a V-shaped recession, the output gap can be reduced significantly over a relatively short period of time, but that is not our central forecast for the next few years.Chart 4: Output Gap & Capacity UtilizationI can already hear some of you asking the perfectly valid question: How can you possibly suggest that deflation will prevail when commodity prices are likely to rise further as a result of seemingly endless demand from emerging economies?

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely5.

I was 17 back then(I think) and in the shape of my life.

No matter how much we look at trends and Case-Shiller data, the reality is that some unforeseen event is likely to have more impact than the events we're expecting.

However; you may be in better shape experience wise than you giver yourself credit for.   

The single-family home next door is in bad shape and can be had for cheap.