Should you follow everyone and invest in the hot appreciating markets the media and everyone talks about?
The media has a much different approach in that they look at hot markets speculatively as ones that will appreciate, our approach is much different. I previously wrote on the topic where to invest and identified many smaller cities, the Midwest and OH as areas that hit on all 4 of my criteria: Little chance of depreciation, lots of available deals, low competition, multiple exit strategies.
Here I will identify specific cities that have an oversupply of opportunity for savvy investors, using the PMI U.S. Market Risk Index that I talked about in that previous post.
When it comes to finding great real estate deals, I am a firm believer that you can find deals in any market and any time. But what is the probability that you can cherry pick from many home run deals have little competition and multiple exit strategies? 
Joshua Dorkin
Charles Feldman
Ted Karsch.
Free Houses and Keeping Your Rental Property Rented?
by Tom Koziol | August 14, 2009Those are the words I entered into a search engine because I was interested in obtaining a house for free. I could not think of any other way to find one so I resorted to the Internet. If you want to try it, be prepared for some slapstick findings.
I tell you this upfront so you won’t be disappointed with what pops up on your computer. I went to one site where the person was selling a book on “free houses” but failed to put even one buy button on the sales page.
His idea sounded plausible but seeing this huge faux pas I assumed his material was less than worthless. I don’t know that for sure since I couldn’t buy his book to read, because he doesn’t allow anyone to buy it.
I did find a budding entrepreneur who offered free homes to anyone who agreed to abide by some, what I consider, draconian conditions. They weren’t very clear on the extent of the freeness, ie, I couldn’t tell if the offered homes were really free and clear to anyone who did abide by the conditions because all they mentioned were the conditions.