Foreclosure Specialist Andy Tolbert

America's Top 100 Growth Markets According to BizJournals.com

Florida has 4 in the Top 20!

I just finished reading an article about the top 100 growth markets in the USA, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Orlando as #14!

When McCain was running for President, he said "The fundamentals of our economy are good" and he got torn apart for that comment, however, I agree with him. Our house prices are TOO LOW, our umemployment is TOO HIGH, and our consumer confidence SUCKS! These are not based on reality and they are NOT right! Our market fundamentals support much better, but it is America's PERCEPTION of things that has gotten us to where we are now...we have BECOME the quintessential self fulfilling prophecy.

Now, I will share with you the article that backs that up with real numbers... expected growth rates in population, per capita income, and private sector employment.

Click Here to go to the Article and Report of the top 100 Growth Cities.

And promise me this... if you are excited about what it says as I am, please forward it to everyone you know!

What a great excursion!

If you've ever shopped in Europe, there are a lot of similarities, such as no shopping bags and you'll need a quarter to get a shopping cart. This makes sense since the name Aldi is short for Albrecht Discount, a grocery chain out of Germany.

Overall, the selection is quite good for such a small store, but you're not going to have a huge selection, so if you're looking for a specialty item, you're probably going to have to go somewhere else, but overall you'll probably be pleased. For example...there's not a 10 foot fridge section of cheeses, maybe just a foot or 2, but they had all the basics.

Here's some things to know before you go:

Bring a quarter...you need to put it in the slot on the shopping carts to get the chain to release...but you get it back when you put the cart back where it goes.

Bring some bags, or you will have to buy them... 6 cents for small or 10 cents for large. Or you can also take the cardboard cartons that all of the food is stacked in down every aisle (there's not actually "shelves")

The prices are GREAT on most things (.79 for a big bag of tortilla chips, .45 for a can of black beans and 1.09 for a loaf of bread, oh yeah, and milk is crazy cheap too!)

Also, most of the things are NOT name brands, but the quality seems to be pretty good, in fact they advertise that their italian dressing won the #1 best in a taste test by the Chicago Tribune.

After you check out, you go over to a counter area where you can bag your groceries, as the cashier just puts them right back into your shopping cart.

They only take cash, food stamps/ebt, and pin-based atm/debit cards. No checks and no credit cards.

I will definately be back to Aldi, and you can check out more info at www.Aldifoods.com

As I travel all over Florida talking to real estate agents, one of the things that I hear over and over is that cash is tight right now.

I also know for a fact that one of the quickest ways to put some cash in your pocket is to wholesale a house...

a regular transaction gets you paid in 30 days at best (if it closes at all)

a short sale gets you paid...who knows? I've been working on one for 10 months now!

a wholesale deal can get you cash in your hand in a matter of DAYS!

You have thousands of properties right under your nose...you're compaining about how low some of these bank/REO houses are being listed and that they're degrading our values...what if you learned the skills to get that house under contract YOURSELF and wholesaled it to an investor in a matter of days? I've wholesaled properties and gotten checks of $1,000, $4,000, $10,000, and even $12,500...all with no cash out of my pocket and most in less than 2 weeks!

I've asked my friend Jason Rodriguez to share with you some of the secrets to wholesaling houses quick, and he's based right here in Florida, but he's wholesaled houses all over the USA. Tonight (Wednesday) at 7pm, I'll be interviewing him...to register now and get the log-in details, Click Here Now!

This training is for agents AND non-agents that are ready to make some money in today's market.

We're almost to election time...and I'm about to share a very dear secret about who gets elected and how that affects the housing market and the rest of the economy in general...

I don't think it matters!

Yep, you've heard me correctly. I've been in the real estate market for many years now, and in both 2000 and 2004 I got stuck with some investment properties that I couldn't sell.

My mom said "don't buy houses in election years...the economy is always worse because people don't buy things until they know who's elected" and I said..."Phooey!" and bought houses anyways, and got stuck with them. (after all, what does MOM know?)

As soon as the election was over, and it didn't matter WHO got elected (in fact, one year they're not even sure WHO got elected!), my houses went under contract almost immediately.

I've said one thing a lot lately: those of us in the real estate field that can get through this JUNK will come out on the other side smelling like roses & rolling in the dough...

I predict that the other side is getting closer and we're going to see it shortly after the election... and for those of us left standing...we'll do EVEN BETTER because a lot of the not-so-serious people who only got in the business when times were good have weeded themselves out. (the Orlando board has dues of over $500 due this month...I predict we will lose a HUGE amount of Realtors in Central Florida this month)

Stay tuned...I'm watching with you!