My family has lived in Pueblo for Decades as well.

I have been "talking" about REI for over a decade but the only action I was taking was buying more programs, books and attending seminars.

I'm a journalist and have been for almost a decade.

This post is over a decade old!?

I've been interested in real estate for the last decade but have been very shy about actually jumping in.

For example a purchase money first on a new home is very different then an HOA lien on a 50 year old property that has had 10 owners.We've had well over 10,000 customer buy properties at trustee sale over the last decade, and while we've recommended every single one do thorough title research, we usually only get reports of 1 or 2 bad outcomes a year - and those have been due to the customer doing no additional research at all despite that recommendation

Is Texas going to be the next california real estate market in the next decade?

Trust me, in the next decade, the property value of SF Bay Area will double again.

Rent in the area I am used to living in for the last decade(as I am doing so currently in Mountain view) and buy an investment property SFH in Hayward/Fremont and give it for rentOption 2.

On the other hand, I don't have to have a crystal ball to know that Detroit is going to tank and NY is going to rocket decades hence.