[Jims5543]

How do you make a lot of money in real estate? To get in when its right, sometimes a good time is when everyone else is jaded by it.

Most of the country is in a huge downturn right now. So a RE investment is killing a lot of late comers.

kwm - you know your region better than anyone I know what you know and I am not living there. I know what is happening down here in Florida and everyone I meet is moving to North Carolina and Tennessee. Some are heading to the NC coast other to the mountains. Then throw in the vultures you know the ones that treat houses like peices of stock and all trade them for increasing prices not caring that they are screwing up the market and the prospects for anyone local to be able to afford a home as property value doubles and triples in the span of 2-4 years. You are in a win win situation.

Your timing could not be better and if I were you I would act fast because the property value up there is already climbing.

I, for one am not a naysyer and I am contemplating moving to my vacation home in NC to live full time and doing something too.