@Laura Richards Altura is good, but most of their properties tend to be in C/D areas.  

If I recall correctly, he advised opening cds and checking accounts at three banks, depositing enough in the CDs to get a CD secured loan at each bank.

The key, is to find a number of buyers that are actually players...not just tire kickers.  

If you are a community player, buy in and partner with law enforcement to make the neighborhood safer.

Data that trends one way may mean future boom times (or a future all-Pro player) in one case, but a hot mess in another.I don't mean to poo-poo the discussion, I have strong opinions on the effects of quantitative easing, the willingness of banks to engage in certain types of lending such as mortgages, the regulations and backing of such lending, and data/examples that have led me to those conclusions and love to debate them with knowledgeable folks like here on BP!

Major league baseball players make throwing and catching a baseball easy too, Tom! 

The South Side already has some TK players who are moving inventory but not as fast as you would think

I have a tenant now, going on 3 years, in a Class C/D area who did not have the full security deposit herself at the time, but had a job.

If you wrote a course, e-book or CD/DVD package and its older than 6 months.

Heard an unconfirmed report that when he went into the announcer's booth he was asked who his favorite White Sox player was and couldn't come up with a single name...lol.