Houston Real Estate Highlights in October Single-family home sales continued their post-Hurricane Harvey rebound as volume rose 7.5 percent year-over-year with 6,381 units sold;Single-family home sales remain 2.8 percent ahead of 2016’s year-to-date volume;Total property sales increased 6.6 percent with 7,614 units sold;Total dollar jumped 10.8 percent to $2.1 billion;The single-family home median price rose 3.9 percent to $226,491, which represents an October high;The single-family home average price increased 2.7 percent to $285,858, also the highest level for an October;Single-family homes months of inventory grew year-over-year to a 3.9-months supply, but is down from a 4.3-months pre-Harvey peak – the result of a surge in consumer demand for housing;Townhome/condominium sales rose 5.8 percent, with the average price down 1.1 percent to $195,393 and the median price down 3.1 percent to $153,000;Leases of single-family homes rose 13.6 percent with the average rent up 2.8 percent to $1,776;Volume of townhome/condominium leases jumped 34.8 percent with average rent up 2.9 percent to $1,533.HAR still encourages anyone who has housing available for temporary occupancy (up to 12 weeks) to please post it on our Harvey Temporary Housing page at www.har.com/temporaryhousing to provide housing to those in need.http://www.har.com/content/mls/?

The average consumer does not use the reports/tools which are a great way to help you get more granularity in your analysis and develop custom mapsZipwho: income and other statsESRI Demographics data by zip code: Love this!

The attorney may also suggest you get an opinion letter fromDOL/IRS which is time consuming and costly.

So even as people are buying (highest levels of consumer confidence), we just don't need as many physical retail stores or restaurants anymore.

The work-arounds for dealing with split/overhead expenses are going to be equally time-consuming as dealing with record keeping within accounting software, but with a full bookkeeping system you get the added benefit of financial reporting at your fingertips.

It took me about 2 months of heavy reading and listening to POD casts to consume most of it. 

I honestly can't think of a single time a building inspector pointed something out on one of my projects that actually made a difference to the consumer.

But, is using it to buy consumables (like a car) a good idea?

You can check any LO's license on NMLS consumer look up to see their employment history to make sure your LO was not a bartender in the day and LO by night if you know what I mean.

@Joshua Hollandsworth alot of these secondary market lenders / portfolio lenders build their business and focus their marketing efforts on working with Mortgage Brokers (B2B) as opposed to direct to consumer (B2C), and some wholesale lenders only work through mortgage brokers (albeit a small handful) You have great goals!