Secondary markets such as Houston, Denver, Nashville, and Austin, Texas are expected to see growth in rents in 2014, by more than 4%, according to a recent article in National Real Estate Investor Online.

Hopefully in exchange for networking and learning.Got preapproval from one lender, finished application with another.Had 2 agents set me up on automatic email alerts for plexes, foreclosures, etc.Listened to podcast 29 and others and got inspired to check out peer to peer lending.Placed CL ads for my websiteReceived a book on inspecting homes and cruised halfway through the book.Followed the local newspaper on the growth of the F/M areaSaw one duplex with Realtor, haven't put in offer...Dang... that felt good.

The only doctors I have seen excited about Obomacare is preventative medicine type services will now be covered that were not before giving those doctor's business growth.

However, the city makes me nervous as if my first one is a dud it could stunt my portfolio growth for a while if I end up needing to make a ton of repairs or evictions.

I actually had a conversation with someone from New York today as a result of past posts on BP that may end up investing with us.We're doing over $11M in projects right now and BP is a large part of our successful growth in business.

Obviously, one lamp and six plants isn't going to do damage to your rental, but that also won't be enough to sustain a grow. The

I mean, the assumption is that we are getting the loan to grow the company and I stand to benefit from that growth so to the extent that I can benefit, I should be at risk.

The developers try to time the market for a project.So I have seen developers go I will buy now to lock in a low price and pay the carrying costs OR I have seen them wait until new council members get in who are more pro growth OR they wait for a good time of them year to build.For a seller one of the main reasons they do not get a rezone from residential to commercial is the cost and time involved plus once you get zoned to commercial you will get hit with higher assessed property taxes and the land might not sell for years instead of months.Just try to talk to whatever development group is interested and express what points are important to you.

. - the graph does seem to be the exact inverse of BiggerPockets growth over the past few years.

I still have questions and reservations about the tenant part but love the prospect of cash flow, and small growth of equity over time as well as tax sheltering.Here's where I am today:I am married and we had our first child in July.