I've spent about an hour trying to write something clever in this space and the end result has been absolutely nothing.

There's no way I'm just going to write the same old stuff. You know: that I'm 38 years old, a high school English teacher for 10 years, a graduate from UNLV with a Masters in Literature (yes, reading is required at UNLV), that I have 2 beautiful children-Savannah and Trenton-that I have an amazing wife, Phoenix. I mean come on! That would be boring. Sure you might notice my entire family shares his or her name with a city, but nobody wants to hear that boring stuff. Heck, you don't care that I've spent some time in Italy, run several half-marathons, and that my honeymoon was watching my wife run the Boston Marathon (among other activities). The traditional bio would note what a huge sports fan I am and that I was born in Ohio and moved to Las Vegas in 1988. So I'm just not going to write all that stuff.

By the way, my favorite color is green.

My passion is ...

Sports

I know too much about ...

Sports

My parents always told me ...

Don't watch sports all day; wait, that was my wife who said that.

My childhood ambition ...

Play sports

My favorite memory ...

Holding my children for the first time

Why I write ...

I don't know

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Self-Improvement

My first job ...

Oles Home Centers. I was the cart boy.

My best moment ...

I had my foot run over by a truck while celebrating UNLV's 1990 national championship in basketball

My inspiration ...

My children

Personal Finance > Real Estate 2008: When to invest in real estate again

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Before investing, keep in mind the ultimate goal: buy low and sell high. In order to sell high, demand must outstrip supply; in order to buy low, supply must outstrip demand. Sounds easy, doesn't it? It is until emotions get in the way. Successful real estate investors rely on fundemental market indicators, not emotions such as fear and greed, when making investment decisions:

1) Population trends: Extremely high inventories played a major role in the recent real estate bust. As long as the population is trending upward in a particular area then inventories will return to normal level...

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