I know my feelings don't mean anything, but I'm fascinated by this.

Perfect , you are one good combo.Nice to know about HD vs Lowes , its fascinating how each chain operates completely differently .Great info .By the way , I just looked up window resizing and apparently , reducing the size was much easier than enlarging, there were couple of good videos on youtube

@Erin AumanI've documented quite a few times how I ended up with my first rental property...my wife brought me the deal and insisted that we were buying it, my only choice in the matter was deciding if I was going to put my big-boy pants on about it or not.I had flipped three apartments in Athens, Greece but I'd really never thought about buying a rental property.It isn't written in stone that things have to be the way they are and they will always be the way they are.

I currently have a real estate license but quickly realized the true side of RE that fascinates me is the “non traditional side”.

We also have Faira that gets you on the MLS free but you must pay full 3% to the buyer agent.This is all fascinating to me and agents are offering 0% up to a price point to sell and up incrementally in fractionalpercentages.

Correlation meaning everything is moving in unison more than ever...so when something bad happens in greece, everything goes down, etc.. the future of technology may be great, but if the overall market is down it will suffer the same fate.The problem with equities is the company you hold may be spectacular, but if the market crumbles, so does your stock, it's called systemic risk.

There are also many other systemic reasons (other countries defaulting, e.g. greece, etc and the collapse of the euro, etc.. many many other reasons).

That being said, I’ve always been fascinated with real estate investing and real estate in general.

I find it fascinating that they could have sold us this house several months ago at the same price...another issues I have seen with the banks (it is no wonder many of them are in the positions they are in).

I'm sure the vast amount of people here would be fascinated to learn more about developing from your experiences.