I am based in Shelby NC. I have been doing real estate investing for over 20 years. I like to think my niche is tenant selection. I have a very strong collection rate and a very low eviction rate. I spend my time on t...

Fashion & Retail: 1233.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/General-Growth-files-for-rb-14945510.htmlNEW YORK (Reuters) - General Growth Properties Inc, the second-largest U.S. mall owner, declared bankruptcy on Thursday in the biggest real estate failure in U.S. history.Ending months of speculation, General Growth, along with 158 of its 200-plus U.S. malls, filed Chapter 11 while it tries to refinance its debts.But the ongoing global financial crisis made it impossible for General Growth to restructure outside of bankruptcy and could signal further troubles for other financial institutions who are General Growth creditors.The collapse underscores the pressure on U.S. commercial real estate with few sources of available funding.Chicago-based General Growth, which owns such valuable properties as South Street Seaport in New York, Fashion Show in Las Vegas and Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, listed total assets of $29.56 billion and total debts of $27.29 billion.The collapse marks a sad chapter for a company that has been growing since 1954, when brothers Martin and Matthew Bucksbaum decided to expand their family's grocery business and build a shopping center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.The company expanded steadily through both building and buying malls, the largest acquisition being the 2004 purchase of high-end mall owner Rouse Cos for $14.2 billion.

All family members worked in one fashion or another.

Whether the place you live in will become warmer or colder will depend on a number of factors and scientists do not know enough to predict that.Here's an article from the Woods Hole institute that speculates that the North-Eastern part of North America and the Western part of Europe will actually become colder due to global warming.http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?

If it doesn't then you need to account for the time the capital is idle in some fashion.

If you can find it, Cancun is the best Easier to rent and accessible from more places than western mexico by far.

Some mid-western cities also seem to be good for people who buy very cheap homes and then rent them for very good cash flows, although it is not clear what the long-term trends are for those cash flows.

They take a 5% buyers premium.The old fashion way, where we live ( a metro area in FL) is get the foreclosure list 2 bucks- go to courthouse on scheduled days and bid.May guess is there is no advantage to buying through this service.Is anyone familar with this "advertisement and or process?

Personally i think that florida beaches are more beautiful than the califorinia beaches.The western florida coast is absolutely gorgeous along siesta key beach, sarasota, up to clear water beach.