A story generally sounds better if you internalize it, it is true, and you can respond to questions confidently. 

To piggy back on your list of reasons, there's an abundance of international (chinese) money willing to park their money in California real estate that earn inferior returns. 

On doing the best you can to prep for such a scenario: I am actually against too much leverage; for having a small mutliplex (e.e.g, with a sf one vacancy is 100% vacancy, but only 25% with fourplex); I am pro reserves, of course, to extent possible; and also pro diversification, with other assets, too (though some dire economic conditions could sink all boats, from international stocks to commodities).....

Flipping PropertiesIf the primary objective of your real estate business, or one of your real estate businesses, is to buy, potentially fix up an existing property and resell it within one year, the Internal Revenue Service can consider that to be an active trade or business.

basically the whole Point is the first assignment they make you do is to apply for three credit cards if you don't already have and then if you do have call and raise your current spending balance on your card which then intern they claim if you do this and that every three months your credit score will go up.. the guy who teaches the class is very hard to follow and if my mom was not a realtor and had to explain to me what he said and what it meant after he said it I would be totally lost, I am still lost and basically the whole point is after this they want you to then go to more training that's going to cost you between $25,000 and $42,000 they claim it's 100% moneyback guarantee, whether you go forward with their programs or not me and my mom simply signed up for the workshop because that has 100% guarantee that if in 6months you submit 25 deals to them using THEIR money(basically the whole reason why we spent the money to go to the further classes in the first place) I still haven't learned or figured out how that works.. then if you don't make your $2000 back in six months they will refund you your money.. we paid the 2000 dollars so that we could use their money to invest in properties.. they have a special program they use and they want to charge you $50 a month for that too!!

This is what I told her, almost word for word and then I copied what I said here onto a doc that we can keep internally as a policy for fair housing purposes.This isn't something I'm advertising to all tenants.

Just a question of whether I am going to win big or win small, but make no mistake about it, the house always wins, and I am the house.David I love it , while I was out speaking from 2009 to 2015 here in the USA and Internationally.

Hi Steve, I do recommend Atlantic Sotheby's International Realty - Property Management Divison, with Phil Kazmierczak, President of Property Management. 

I am seeking some advice and information on international lending, home value (MLS does not exist there), up and coming areas, real estate professionals and dependable property management companies.   

Once you start adding all the costs (permits, foundation, internal furnishings, appliances) it easily adds up to 350-400+ per sqft, and thus if you are able to get 500-600 sqft prefab under 200k, it makes more sense. also cant underestimate the time and effort you have to put with a stick built