She told me that they don't pay any back taxes or prorate, so to check with our tax collector before making any offers. 

BUT to counter that... there are SOOO many apartment complexes that are struggling to fill their vacancies because the market was over developed and saturated during the boom...I recommend looking in Fargo since they have seen steady growth in the past couple of years and are for the most part unaffected by what the oil/energy industry does.I say if you find a killer deal in whatever niche you decide to pursue, go for it.  

Any quick dirty way to find property numbers good bad without fancy spreadsheets or apps or calculators just to put on napkin and boom you see great potential especially when you are on field.

There’s a huge market for Porsche collectors but you really have to know what you’re shopping for.

This may be a noobie question but how is it possible to get into real estate in an area that is booming?

Basically because we do not have and edge in this market, in terms of having good contacts at the city tax collectors office or with the City's Planning & Development office its best we focus on a market where we do have those contacts.

I have known for some time about the cannabis boom out there and have recently seen the construction going on for the large grow sites.

Now granted I could be biased and to focused on my market but here is data from two different Zip Codes in my MarketDowntown averaged 3.1 -3.8 Months supply for 12 Months and then Boom September went to 12 Months Supply (Inventory only went up slightly but Buyers Disappeared and Closed Transactions got cut by 75% Month to Month)Another Nicer Area went from Sub 4 Months to over 8 Months. 

The concept is that the same strategies that work for stocks and securities through the Dow Jones and NASDAQ’s boom and bust cycles, will work for real estate investments during real estate’s boom and bust cycles.

But I have years of experience being a portfolio collector for well known collection agencies and mortgage companies.I'm in St.