My mother works an office at an RV park 30 min east of Hoiston and it is booming because of all the temporary work that comes into the factories in that side of town.

I live in a boom and bust area where real estate has been enjoying a run up in prices, so personally I would not buy rentals right now. 

But there's a re-fi boom underway.....gathering steam too.

Lots of people made lots of money during the boom speculating.

I really hope we don't get too much of a boom as I plan on retiring in Cheyenne (someday) and have lived in other boom towns when it goes bust...slow and steady growth is all I ask!

My plan is to start off with the purchase of a buy-and-hold rental property in a booming college town.

We had just been through the biggest real estate boom in history.

Interestingly, although distressed product from the 2005 to 2007 housing boom and ensuing bust has been dwindling over time, the lack of trading supply stems less from a reduction in the outstanding inventory than some other barriers to sales today.Roth said some banks still have "significant" amounts of nonperforming legacy loans in danger of going out of statute each month, but generally aren't selling them.

Some of the newer ones (created in the early 2000) can be significant and drive down value, but those are mostly in suburban communities built during the housing boom and are very, very rare.Ground rent amounts are set in stone and will not every increase.  

Richard Fleming why would you invest in another state when you currently live in probably the best state in the country with all the economic boom and population growth Texas has had.You are at a competitive advantage living in Texas their are people from all over the country looking for deals their.