There are some nice pockets in not so nice areas and vice versa.

This is basic finance that more expensive appreciating assets cash flow less and vice versa.

New and existing homes are selling faster than Los Angeles or the Inland Empire, with the lowest relative supply of new homes and existing homes selling in a week.Zonda Advisory vice president Stephen Carr says its strength is due to San Diego's healthy job market with an unemployment rate of roughly 3%; constrained supply with only 60 actively selling new-home communities in the county; and the median new-home closing price being less than the median resale closing price.

That's why you hear so many negative stories from agents about working with investors and vice-versa. 

The downside to being an agent as an investor is that you have to disclose (at least in NY) that you're an agent when acting in the hands of an investor and vice versa for disclosing agent or investor.

Just because they are a REALTOR does not mean they have ethics or vice versa.Plenty of awesome brokers/agents out there that are not REALTORS by choice.

Small loans are a critical part of the work we do to make affordable, quality rental housing a reality for renters in urban areas and smaller markets across the nation," said Bob Simpson, multifamily vice president for affordable, green and small loans.

for the sake of being up to date on features and security i would go with office 2013. i dont believe that office 2007 is compatible with the mobile versions of the program and i think the save file format changed. for the sake of eliminating confusion in file format and not running in to any one who had a older version that can't open docx. files or vice versa getting the latest version is a good buy. i have 2010 my self but as long as you can open both the old office file formats and the new then you should be fine.

Richard "Rick" Clatfelter, 42, of Phoenix, also is named in the lawsuit as executive vice president of the business and his assets were also frozen.Deucher and Clatfelter guaranteed their investors they would see returns by "represent(ing) that investments were safe and low risk because the notes and investment contracts were 100 percent collateralized by valuable real property," the SEC said in a statement in January."

http://www.housingwire.com/articles/print/35087-fannie-mae-lenders-say-its-now-easier-to-get-a-mortgage"For the first time in seven quarters, we see a pronounced increase in the share of lenders, particularly medium- and larger-sized lenders, reporting on net an easing of credit standards in both the GSE eligible and non-GSE eligible loan categories,” said Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae.