Real estate firms and too easy mortgage money have done extensive damage to sensible resale values over the years.

From my Canadian perspective some areas of the United States seem to have decent prices and some areas very high in comparison. This paying the square footage costs you quote with sixties remodeling needs present is questionable.

I am not enthralled with common current rhetoric. Still the best terminology is I tend to think outside the box on real estate acquisitions. As crazy as it seems it usually has worked out to our benefit. I have been told you cannot do the things you do. Yet I still just do them.

For example. When we arrived in the local town. I simply went door to door on places I was interested in and asked if this property could be purchased. Sounds insane but it got what we needed at that time for a decent price in two days.

For far less than what real estate firms would have tried to force out of it. Looking back over all the years we have not brought one house or piece of land where real estate companies existed in the transaction.

The equivenant of economic slavery never interested me. Part of freedom to me is not being oppressed by heavy financial obligations. Or overbearing government regulations that have too much control over people.

Working just to make sure there was enough food and shelter to have the strength to repeat it the next day was and is a form of slavery if you examine it.

Learning how to buy if not job one is or should be mandatory.