Big City--Small town feel.Also, the growth of the city recently has the city excited.

The other has lead at other times.I was mostly pointing out how two people can report two markets that are within driving distance and the markets are rather different or are perceived to be so.John Corey

Just that remote management is tough so a great PM is even more important than if you stuck to KY and the neighboring states (drive time of 1 hours or less).John Corey

And most people are “ignorantly” willing to give them their lives.The point I’m going to make finally here is that EMOTION is the #1 driving force of the highs and the lows in this market.

The area around here ( Jackson County) is not big on industrial type development (no particulate polution) and we have land use laws the prohibit growth.

By the way the credit contraction is keeping more and more people from actually owning homes and driving vacancy rates down.

It was written by a real estate agent that said he would post everywhere he could for hours on end to drive traffic to his website.I find that after I put my kids to bed, I head up to my computer (around 9pm) and I don't get off it until after midnight (in fact, this post is at 12:11am).

If I still lived in Wichita Falls I would drive right on down to see you!

Focus on doing better deals if you want to grow the portfolio.

Some housing markets did not pause while other housing markets were soft during the recession.So, focus on local conditions mostly and figure out what drives your local market.If you are buying at 30% below the market it matters a lot less.