The same is true for real estate. If you live in Southern California home values are climbing towards sky. The real estate market is hot!

At very same time there are many areas in Midwest where there has been no job growth, no increase in sales activity and no increase in home prices for over 5-years. If you are in one of those markets you find real estate investing is an entirely different ballgame.

Here's a good example of picking your sweet spot… something you, as an investor, should consider when planning your investing tactics.

Technical Olympic USA is home builder. The company very carefully selects areas where they build homes. Right now they are in ten hot markets:

Florida Texas Tennessee Maryland Pennsylvania Arizona Virginia Colorado Nevada Delaware

This builder avoids crazy areas like San Diego, Loa Angeles and Boston.

They look for areas where employment has grown steadily for last 5 or 6 years and where second-time home buyers are moving to homes in $200,000 to $400,000 range.

They've learned that these buyers are in there 30s and 40s, have kids and want 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2,800 to 3,000 sq ft of living space and a two-car garage.

- by Barry Gilbert

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Ever wonder how thousands of "under radar" web businesses that earn well over $100,000/year (many with much higher sales) out of their own home do it?

Over last year I've had great fortune to speak with many of these true, hidden entrepreneurs at conferences, seminars, e.t.c.

What I'm about to share with you also came true for me, and is outlined in more detail in my Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package

Here's an example of their business model:

1. Information Products. Without a doubt, each one of successes I know market their own infoproducts. For some, it's an ebook. Others have special reports. Still others run online coaching programs, membership sites, paid newsletters, teleseminars, or produce digital audio or video products. It's not their only source of income, but is a MAJOR source of income, and more important, brands them an expert in their field leading to success with #2 and #3 below.

2. Market related Affiliate Products. Again, in almost every case, these online success stories become experts at finding and creating joint venture deals with partners.