Government, an economic indicator that relates to labor, material and services.Marketing aspects of related industries, from timber to plastics.Insurance companies watch trends as it relates to new costs of construction and trickles through to premiums and losses.Hedge funds, the mortgage industry, securities, REITs are related to macro assessments.My point is that the closest aspect of macro numbers to your market is to motivation of buyers and sellers, temporary attitudes that may tell an owner "I should sell now" or "I need to hold off" but usually these temporary motivations or attitudes don't make it to the level of making a buy or sell decision, all such thoughts are simply indicators to form an opinion to lean toward further analysis of a personal situation.All real estate is local.

It's certainly a bit unethical, especially if you told him that you were already working on obtaining the rest of the properties.Your attitude of not wanting to make enemies was a good one to have and it sounds like you were very professional about it.

There will be many who don't want to mess with contractors and repairs, some want to walk away.On the news you'll see owners being interviewed saying, with the old American attitude of fighting back and rebuilding, they're not moving!

I don't know if I would have been as motivated unless I heard all the success stories and positive attitudes that everyone on BP has.Thanks again!

Her positive attitude stinks.

My attitude is there are plenty of deals around so I never hesitate to walk on a deal.

The laid back attitude will generally serve you well to keep form getting into bad deals.That being said do you know what is typical for landlords to buy in your area?

Good idea, great attitude.

This change of attitude has neutered the agreed deed-in-lieu-of-foreclosure process to put it mildly.

Don't let that attitude bring you down or discourage you.