Happy birthday BP nation!

Just make sure in the description that the book is to study for a state or national real estate agent's test, that will keep you from getting some guru book.   

Some articles I have read state that hooking up with a national chain-type brokerage would be the best as they have established training programs to help in getting started.

If you are holding a property, that is a long term asset.Private money, from friend or someone you know, might be longer, but people die, things happen in life, so such financing is not really long term unless it is set over into an entity, like a trust, that survives life's surprises.Banks are institutions, they don't die, become incapacitated or bicker through a divorce.

I started only priming after visiting a nation wide home builder Toll brothers.

It has has towns (villages really) with horrible poverty rates but it's largest city of 350K has poverty rates that match the national average.LA County?  

Hedge fund, REITs and other institutional money are many times buying to hold, and don't have to justify bad single investments to all individual investors.

Earl,In my opinion, we are not in a real estate bubble, at least not on a nation-wide basis.

However you're not ever going to out rank the national sites.

It is a private institution and its body of students are not as "party happy" as those of other Universities.