Ran across this link containing some stats for you. It has the major cities in the US, broken down pretty nicely for you to review.
It contains 2006/2007/2008 (by quarter) and 2009 rankings by quarter.
The thing that I noticed that is a little misleading, it has a percentage figure at the end. I believe that the percentage figure is in relation to the same quarter of the prior year.
It’s QUITE shocking to see some of the figures from 2006 till now, of what some of the major metro areas have done.
I think pretty soon some of the US may be able to trade their home/property for a Cheeseburger Happy Meal.
What do YOU feel the greatest barriers are to getting started in real estate investing ?
My goal over the next several weeks is to help you analyze what may be holding you back and then create awesome wealth exploding tips to help you achieve whatever it is that you may desire.
For some people, it may be the belief that you don’t have money, so you can’t buy houses.
For others, it may be that you don’t have a dime to spare. How to get started on a shoe string budget ?
For others yet, you may have money to invest, you just don’t know how to start.
I could guess what the major barriers are, but figure I might as well ask you.
Let me know. I’m here to answer your questions and help you.
Learn how to build your own list by learning how to research this information on your own. It’s not hard and most counties are online now these days. You really need to learn how to research your own titles to properties. Why ? Because then you get to be first for your deals. You can cherry pick what you want to go after.
You know in your heart, that the true sweet deals, have probably been “removed” from that list anyway.
Matter of fact, what I do is pay somebody how to do it online. I learned how to do it on my own. Then, I taught them, and they do it now for me. No, they don’t know really what that person is, or how to work the deal. But I do.
I’ll try to put together a little guidebook/video product explaining how to research titles to properties over the next week.
It rocked. It was awesome having so much feedback from all of you and to discuss where we are at in the real estate investing market here in SW PA.
FYI…For anybody interested in Pennsylvania Real Estate Investing…I’ll be adding links/sharing info, etc under the PA REI tab in the future. Feel free to check back and see if there have been updates, or better yet….subscribe to the RSS feed at the top right of the page and receive autoamted updates when items change on this blog. Or…subscribe via email and I’ll do my best to keep you up to speed on occurences.
Brandon
Anyway…WIG meeting was great last night. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Just received my new flip camcorder from ebay last night. So, stay tuned for many more videos coming soon. We are going to pump up your investing education.
Well, my prayers go out to the family of Jody and her family this evening. There was a shooting in a Pittsburgh LA Fitness Center last night, and she was one of the victims.
Just this morning while at the YMCA I was watching the news story…I was thinking…man. What is this world coming to?
Then to come home and have an email from my brother and tell me it was somebody I knew at UPJ. No, we weren’t close friends or anything like that, but just to see of somebody like that you knew of is an eery feeling.
Update: The story below has an unfortunate ending sadly (see link at bottom):
My dad and I went down to Ohiopyle, PA to pickup a fridge today. On route 381, just North of Ohiopyle,…on the way home, we were passerby’ers to a crash.
A dodge pickup went out of control, flipped several times and landed on its side. We pulled up and a guy was walking around the truck. We asked if everyone was ok, and he said 2 people were inside and he needed a fire extinguisher. There was a RV pulling over right in front of us and they were getting a extinguisher out.
Long story short, we pulled a girl from the top of the truck out of the driver’s side door(as it was lying on it’s side), she appeard to have a cut on her leg. We then had a strap (since we were picking up a fridge) that we could use to hold open the door from the top. We were unable to get the mom out of the vehicle until the first fireman arrived with his axe. He chopped out the windshield. Unfortunately the mom did not survive the crash.
It was a very bad accident, and my prayers go out to their family at this time.
