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No doubt the real estate market has been down with a very bad case of the flu since Fall of 2006.  While this flu has MANY symptoms (short sales, foreclosures, loan mods, etc), there are actually a few signs the market could be on the mend. 

One sign of recovery is the return of the buy and hold investor: the landlord.  Granted, investors have been in the market since the first moment the market was woozy, but most of them were the "buy low, sell high (and FAST)" investors--the flippers of the market.  There are still out there...but they are now joined by the buy and holds--a much needed stabilizing force in the market called the landlord. 

So why the return of this noble rent collector?  The market is welcoming back this old friend by offering bargain home prices, radically low interest rates, significant demand for, and limited supply of, rental properties, and then topping it off with increasing rents (back to basic economics, high demand + limited supply = increased rents)...which all makes for a lovely combination for the landlord and landlords to be...There has not been a better time to buy an investment property in the last decade.

So while the media may paint a picture of the real estate market on its deathbed, savvy investors see something else. Opportunity.  Are you one of them?

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