**I expect the goverment to grow, which is a further drag on the economy in the long run** Roosevelt's election to the presidency brought about a realignment political scientists call the Fifth Party System.

Seems like you are expecting some additional declines, which would be consistent with my expectations for Phoenix. 60% of $50K would be only $30K.

We aren't likely to get rain for 5-6 months, at least more than enough to dampen the ground, so I wouldn't expect that there'd be subsidance till after that.I will take dirt over, dig the dirt that's there down enough that I can push it into the "cave", and fill it as well as I can.

To date I have earned more than that $15k in interest and the buyer expects to pay off the $65k note in a few months.

Obviously, I would never expect anyone in bank management to admit this....and I plan on finding the 'who' in this process who has authority to rethink the logic.It's less logic and more ego/emotion.

Then today...Property management gets back to me, saying it received an 'OK' from the owner to type the lease agreement before actual move-in date, but they will wait to hand over the keys until at or near the move-in date (I was ok with this all along, had previously told mgt. that I didn't expect to get the keys before move-in date).So I guess I'm in better position than before.

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.