Everything works for a certain price.Sometimes things are sold at ZERO but there is still costs with owning the parcel to consider and liability.Office in Atlanta last I checked had vacancy of over 20%.They overbuilt for the boom times and the market corrected.Companies downsized space and started telecommuting some.Office can be great if you purchase right.If you purchase low enough then you can undercut everyone else and keep your space full as you do not have the over leveraged debt service to deal with.

Sunnyvale north of El Camino is riding on an intense building boom. 

Maybe you can do some research in Newark, which is booming because of its proximity to Facebook headwaters.

He had some kind of a RE mentoring course and he had John Davidson singing a song "I'm giving you a rainbow..." which absolutely evoked the "Pie in the sky" pitch.Back then, seems to me, RE gurus, generally speaking, were much more blatant about making over-the-top outlandish claims that no sane person should believe in their right mind, but nevertheless a great many people would buy into those anyway I think, in large part because the economy was booming at that time and people who hated their jobs were much more willing to drop a few hundred or even thousands for a lick and a promise and then whatever they bought (even though it wouldn't work anyway if they did work it) ended up sitting on their shelf.

Each county has their own "tax collector" site online.

Would have been much better launching an initiative like this several years ago when the boom was happening.

West Philly is booming and still relatively inexpensive.

I have little to no vacancy, decent rents, and although appreciation isn't going to skyrocket (even in a boom period), I find the properties very accessible in terms of cost.Part of me is tempted to gravitate towards my next property in an urban area BUT when the sticker price is 2-3x what it is in the rural setting......it's difficult to decide!

My threshold is basically if capital gains exceeds 5 years rent, i cut out, the reason being that the odds of seeing one real estate boom bust cycle is high.The only exception I use is for very high quality real estate where in a down cycle, you will not see much for sale. for example I am currently holding onto a SFR rental walking distance to beach which meets my 5 year rule, but i'm not selling due to the rarity of finding real estate walking distance to beach.

., Most realtors always push you to spend the most you can afford, as the more you spend the more there comission, As you can tell over the last couple years, forclosure is booming, this isnt always the best move.