Ever feel like a loner out there? 

That happens to be the title of the picture above, taken by our Marketing Director Jess as she was fly fishing in Yellowstone this past week.  (Yes, we really do encourage everyone on our team to get their work done and play some everyday.  Jess took the opportunity to head down into Yellowstone this past Monday afternoon and fished the evening rise on the upper Gibbon in Elk Meadows for you Yellowstone fans.  Jess said this tree standing alone along the banks of the Gibbon was lit perfectly in the evening light, hence the great pic.)

I’ve been appropriately and thoughtfully taken to task lately by our leadership team for running too much with the herd lately in writing about the travails of the credit and stock markets, and the economy as a whole.  No doubt economic issues are quite sobering out there; there are some aspects of current economic news that very well may be historic in magnitude.  Is it the end of the economic world and the United States as we know it (as prognosticated in a recent CNN story)?  Not by a long shot. 

Our leadership team has huddled in person and by phone in the past twenty-four hours, and we’ve determined to focus even more so on our primary mission – real estate market research for investors.  We want to help keep you abreast of pertinent current economic / financial news, but that’s not our primary mission. 

Here’s the fascinating fact that drives our team - in the midst of the ongoing economic turmoil and the great upheaval in single family real estate around the country, there are both single family and multifamily markets that have astoundingly intact and favorable market conditions right now.  Yes - it goes contrary to everything you hear in the news these days, but it’s true.  We’re just finishing a very intense run of updating almost 85 markets in the past 4 weeks, and have had several new and very interesting markets pop up on the radar, particularly for multifamily investors. 

We feel a little lonely at times talking about the potentials out there; there are very few singing the same song we are (here’s another – Jeff Brown at BawldGuy Talking).  We’ve even been “shouted down” on some major news portals for posting commentary that all is not doom and gloom.  So be it – sometimes (make that most of the time) the facts push you to go against the reactive, non-thinking crowd.  Some of us have been recently researching and reading a bit of the very famous contrarian investor Sir John M. Templeton who just passed away on the 8th; if you’re feeling a bit “lonely” as a real estate investor he has some profound principles and encouragement to savor. 

We are dedicated to researching those markets and helping investors track changes in the more rapidly than ever changing markets these days.  We stand by our premise that we’re entering (if not already in) a period of profound potential for the savvy investor who is will to spend the time to place solidly performing assets in emerging / recovering markets.  It’s not easy, it takes thinking like a contrarian of sorts (very difficult for some to do), it takes more effort to find the deals these days – but they’re out there. 

We’ve been hinting at some changes were making in our system and database – we’ll be announcing most of those this next week.  Good stuff coming – as our database matures we’re now beginning to really tweak the analysis tools we’re developing to hone in on those markets with the greatest potential. 

If you’re an innovator who feels like you’re alone at times as an investor – take heart, you’re not the only one who sees great potential in today’s turmoil.  If you’re not sure – it’s time to roll up your sleeves and dig in, do some research, and see for yourself. 

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