In order to fully take advantage of this, shop around.

We're in escrow on a nice one built in 1997 in a great rental neighborhood (jobs, shopping, commuting, ethnically diverse) in Indianapolis

I mean they could have brought brown bag lunches too, but I don't think anyone would have bought it.

Your local hardware shop should be able to do it.

That will happen when:a) people around the world lose faith in the currency b) there is another alternative that is perceived as saferFor more on the German inflation that was mentioned above see:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2008/09/29/a-bag-of-money-to-buy-a-loaf-of-bread/ :cool:

Basically, back in the day, the self esteem of the individual borrower determined the deal they got, since the MLO could just tack a pre-payment penalty, make it an ARM, bump the rate, etc, and get paid more for every little "feature" they shoved in (so if the 'true' rate bump for your 680 FICO was 0.25%, they'd bump it 0.75% and get paid more for the 0.5% difference... in this world loan shopping obviously made a huge difference).

Most experienced mid to large size shops have a fairly large geographical footprint which gives diversification opportunities to their clients.

We charge our investors that we find homes from that are out of state a 10% project management fee that we have considered raising because between our wholesale discounts, and our contractor discounts and time saved we normally he buyer having to shop around, we  save well more than 10% to the investor. 

If you push, you'll probably push her away from it instead of igniting the spark of REI interestBe available, on her timetable - there will be moments when she's ready and interested to talk... but those moments might come when you're at the end of a long day and don't want to talk shop.

Would love to connect with some local folks on the ground (I live and invest in NYC but looking to expand further afield) to talk shop.