California in a general comparison trades ahead of most other states due to the larger property values and the backdrop of shorter non-judicial foreclosure timelines.

I think 2015 and beyond will be like 2007-2009 (the crash) only for slightly different reasons.From my understanding many of the hedge funds plan to establish publicly traded REITs focused on SFH (and from what I heard we should be seeing this soon).

I am a flipper by trade, short term money, in and out in 6 months, maybe on the furthest outside 9 but I have never hit that time on a property closing too closing yet.

There are some publicly traded funds out there that are muni bonds and will lower your effective rate.

I have also dreamed of building a mobile trading office.The idea is to take a van or a SUV with three rows of seats, and remove the middle row to set up a trading environment with four 27" monitors and two slim (desktop) computers each with 8 cores or more.

Apartments are much harder to pick up at a discount since they're traded between investors.- Apartments have the added management burden of common area maintenance.

In equity trading, an execution software can generate multiple orders within a second.

Do u have an experienced buddy uncle or anyone in town that is a contractor or has a firm knowledge of the building trades that could do this inspection if you cant find one?

I usually know when I'm talking to a real landlord - we start trading war stories and tax woes ;) The tenant is already out of their property in most cases and living on someone's couch.

I have friends and family that are in various trades, so whatever I cannot immediately do myself, I can get help.