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    "The Mortgage Guru" is Seattle-based real estate expert Steve Tytler, whose popular real estate column has been published every Sunday in several Washington State newspapers since 1990. Tytler is a licensed real estate broker and mortgage broker; and owner of Best Mortgage, which is a highly rated Seattle mortgage company, established in 1992.

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WARNING: Investors account for one-quarter of all home sales! July 20th, 2005

If you are planing to “get rich quick” buying rental properties, you have lots of company. About one-quarter of all home sales today are to investors!

That means that eventually there will come a time when all these “investors” want to sell their rental houses to cash in on their profts. That will inevitably lead the supply/demand curve to swing in the buyers’ favor and the housing appreciation train will come to a screeching halt.

Click the link below to check out the stats on investor home buying last year:

Some 23 percent of all home sales in 2004 went to investors.

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