interesting article talking about how institutional money is merging with competitors.does anyone see this as sign of the top of the market or is there another way to look at this trend since American Homes 4 Rent and American Residential Properties Inc. aren't the first big players to do this recently?

More often than not I seem to be finding realtors that are only capable of sending me listings and if I ask too many questions I dont hear from them again. 

(They seem like such basic features that I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that they'd all have that capability!?!) 

Andre Agassi, and maybe you don't know of him, was a dominant tennis player in the 90's and early 2000's.

There are good basketball players and bad basketball players.

This property gave me the confidence to know that this is something I am capable of doing.

@Justin O'Malley it's okay to do but you have to make sure you're capable of paying it back otherwise as @Bill S. mentioned you will be penalized and the tax liability is not worth the loan.If the only way you are going to have enough for a $300k loan is by borrowing $9k for your down payment from your 401k you have to really think if you are prepared to purchase this expensive of a property. 

Everyone except the appraiser knows the financial capability of the buyer except the appraiser.If you think I’m on a rant, I am.

If you are a short term player, then a drug house may be a solid model.  

"Memes are just these ideas that have been planted into us about what is possible or not for us, about what we can do and what we can’t do, what human beings are capable of and all of that kind of thing.