Salt Lake is growing economically and it's huge for first time home buyers.

Generally, the borrower must make a cash investment of at least 3.5 percent of the contract sales price as required by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

I don't know any highly successful investors, who are self made, that did not attend college, I do know some successful people who did not attend college.My undergrad was in finance/accounting and economics, later an MBA.

My beef is more about peoples credit scores that have been thrashed, along with the negatives on their credit, due to the economic policies they had no control over.

It's pretty much why I view government as our largest organized criminal activity. :)

I think all of them are getting that message and there will be another opportunity to hold many of them accountable in two years.Joel, I think that until we level out from our climb and the course is set economically we can't judge where the tops of the clouds might be.

The current "run up" in pricing here only takes us back to perhaps 2009 pricing - still an incredible value for the 5th or 6th largest metro in the US.

Personally, I think the economic outlook would have been the same with either candidate.

You have to view the area you want to invest in from an economic point of view in addition to conventional property analysis.  

Search the web for the economic development committee/council/organization in the area you are looking at.