Real Estate by Tom Koziol | December 25, 2009 
If you read the headline that shouted, November new home sales sink 11 percent, without knowing your local market, you could easily believe it was aimed at you. On one hand, it certainly could apply to your area but, on the other hand, it certainly may not. By now, you probably understand the simple real [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Market by Brendan O'Brien | September 8, 2009
Many landlords are attracted to markets with a large institutional presence because they offer stability. Hospitals, universities and government agencies rarely make major cuts in employment, and they very rarely close. That means your prospective tenants are not likely to leave.
This also used to be the case for military bases. Years ago, career soldiers could build very comfortable nest eggs by buying a home in every base where they were stationed, and keeping it when they were transferred. They would always be able to find other soldiers to rent their homes. That’s changed to some extent because of the number of base closings over the last couple of decades. However, the largest bases will remain active for many years.
Are these markets really stable?
Big institutions almost never make up more than half of the employment in any market, meaning those markets are still subject to other private industry employment losses and gains.
Joshua Dorkin
Real Estate Investors: Learn To Take What The Market Is Giving You
by Jeff Brown | August 23, 2011One of the most valuable lessons ever taught me was to be happy with whatever the market was givin’ me. In San Diego I’ve never sold a home or attached residence as a rental. Why? Since I made the transition from the traditional home market to investments, homes here have made no sense whatever. Yet [...]