Amerikote, I wish you were in my part of the country.

:goofy: I know that sounds crazy but the other day I was watching CMT and (yeah my dirty secret, I like country music) this guy train his dog to get TP if he ran out in the restroom.

In addition, with the socialists proposing universal health care, and President Bush enacting the Medicare drug benefit, the timetable for our country's bankruptcy is rapidly accelerating toward us.

Remember how Ronald Reagan took this country from the horrors of the Gas Crisis, Hostage Situations and one of the worst economic forecasts in our history?

Last year the number of booths was about 1/3rd what they had the previous years, and most were about investing in other countries.

My wife and I grew up in Texas but truly love the mountain west, and spend a lot of time enjoying the outdoors here in Montana and the Yellowstone country.

I'm starting to hear from various places, all over the country, that property is starting to sell again.I suspect that means that the banks are once again lending to qualified borrowers.

I market properties in multiple places in the country and it makes me NUTS that they regulate the postings so intensely . . .

You can waste a lot time on this or you can actually do real estate :)Banks are not going to talk to you unless your a HUGE player and even then you would be buying on QCD - the fact your asking this question tells us your not a huge player - and when I say HUGE player like your one of 10 people in the country who can do this.Auctions are your best bet or pre-foreclosures lists but your not really going to be chatting with the banks much.You can try to create a relationship (which means buying from them over and over) with a broker who handles them.

There goes that image of a backwoods country bumpkin!