I thnk I should continue to do this untill I pay off my home and then pay off the second rental, save up and by the next rental cash and so on.

After all, you're HOLDING the property so property value means virtually nothing until you sell many years from now (as long as rents hold up and you continue to cash flow).

As the real estate cycle continues to revolve we find ourselves moving to a buyer's market where the price of real estate becomes more negotiable.Some areas still get premium prices but most are now having to accept offers that are not a the top values of a year ago.

I continue to get letters from investors who have gone out and made it happen after spending some time on our site learning.

Of course, Google's methods are kept secret, but most people believe that how deeply the googlebot crawls is a function of the pagerank of the linking sites.

That is just wrong and if they continue at that rate, they will get a bad reputation very quickly.

Thanks for everyone who has continued this thread.

I will continue to use this method to make me look good in the mortgage community.

Bottom line, you have your foot in the door with REI, why not continue that.

We are just on the tip of the iceburg on this and will see a lot more if the index for their ARM continues to climb.