What I found out is that any any profession or vocation, if you're going to be any good, learning never ends and the reading required isn't going to be real estate novels in real estate, it will be dry, factual and more technically specific, like a text book. 

I really love Michael's oldschool cut and dry style... and his motivational words make me strive for world domination (kidding, but this guy is great).If you guys haven't watched BP Podcast 125 yet, I strongly recommend it... especially if you need a nice big dose of motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

As the ink continues to dry on this newly enacted legislature, share prices of lenders with a high concentration of mortgages backed by rent-stabilized buildings in New York City are plummeting as landlords are exploring all options, including handing back the keys to their lenders.

This utility company for Phoenix seems confident they will have water for the foreseeable future (https://droughtfacts.com/risks...) but at the same time everyone knows the southwests water reservoirs are drying up.

At the end of the day the junior lien holders still have the same rights and need to be bought off or foreclosed off, no matter what you're doing with the first.The situation seems pretty cut and dry to me, you either buy the note and foreclose or get the bank to foreclose and buy it from them. 

MLS seems to be dried up.

It's only happened once, and that turned out to be a combination of three things: a toilet leak, a teenage daughter's long showers, and a lot of watering in the garden in a dry summer.

Janesville is getting dry for me.  

However, I'd miss the mountains, the big hole in the ground that we have in Arizona, (The Grand Canyon) the dry heat, no hurricanes, no ice storms, no mudslides, no earthquakes, (think California) no sink holes.

When the basement dried out I sealed the walls and never had a problem again.