BP is mentioned frequently at our meetings.

I end up having to go to the recorder/auditor's office to record fairly frequently.

Do you all find yourselves replacing carpet frequently as tenants move in and out?

Here is the article: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/07/04/my-real-estate-independence-day/Sidenote: If you don't frequent that part of BP, you're missing out on great stuff.

People are so underwater nowadays, they can hardly sell or short sale their home even if they want to, unless they are out of state owners or they inherited the property it seems "motivated sellers" are far less frequent.

However, the judge has lately been more lenient on the 30 days and frequently gives 60 so that makes it 11 weeks.

Unfortunately, the only way we felt 100% comfortable with location was being there frequently before we bought our first one, spending weekends driving down, visiting local open houses, farmers markets, grocery stores, parks, reading local paper (which you can do online, so that one may be helpful to you) & watching local news, finding a good agent who lived there his whole life and new the micro-areas.

They miss a lot of opportunities to maximize returns, and frequently even give away "relocation money" to *investors* who are stiffing them.

This is the primary reason why hard money and private money loans are more frequently used by investors, to move fast on the purchase of investment properties.

And Bill, thank you for the good wishes - our houses are somewhat near the theater, and we frequent the Home Depot directly across from the theater.