Rents are dropping across the country and expected to get worse in 2009.

Look at countries that are much more homogeneous than ours they still find reasons to quibble, why because that's what these ideas of political parties do, you cannot expect to get anything done if you want it done "YOUR" way unless your a fidel castro, kim jun il or the likes.take your time to understand that the only constant is this world is change and without understanding that and thinking that we can keep things the way they were or bring back the good old days are a pipe dream.My only hope for anyone ruling any country or a group of people is that they educate the population; with education anything can be fixed, without education we have people screaming to burn books, latching on to words that have no meaning and again i ask you ladies and gentlemen who on here invests their money in their communities and not just their nest egg for later.

So is wholesaling something that another person with a fulltime job, like myself, could expect to successfully do?

That happens to all of us with our cars, but nobody expects it for houses.

You can't make 100%, no income verification mortgages to people with 550 Beacon scores and expect it to turn out well.

"To be frank, since the TARP money came in, they are still selling off (properties at auction), but they kind of took a step back." . . .Real Estate Disposition LLC (REDC), which claims to be the nation's largest real estate auction company, held 300 ballroom auctions in 2008 and sold nearly 33,000 foreclosed homes for $3.4 billion -- a seven-fold increase in sales volume and nearly triple the proceeds the company generated in 2007.Company CEO Jeffrey Frieden said he expects to "smash that record" this year as banks and lenders continue to amass a huge inventory of foreclosed homes and are more motivated than ever to sell their inventory. . . .Some observers fear that if the massive amount of debt the government is taking on to stimulate a recovery, inflation -- and higher interest rates -- are inevitable consequences.

I use clearnow.com to collect the payments and I use ahswarranty.com to act as handymen to repair things, check into those 2 companies, I think they are a great asset to us investors.....for the record I receive no monies for referring those companies.But again, until you get started somewhere you can't expect to make any money.

I would expect the planning commission to reveal this situation if asked.

However, he did state that he makes his final decision based on what most of the houses in that particular neighborhood have, and what peoples expectations are.

lol :oops: Hey don't feel bad it happens to the best of us in real estate always expect the unexpected it's an unpredictable game.That is why homeowners and investors always have to work hard to stay one step ahead.