Usually, if you read about it in the local paper as the next 'hot' neighborhood, the best deals are already gone.

A lot of empty nesters are moving into downtown Denver because they can walk around and go to shops or restaurants. Downtown Denver used to have rows and rows of boarded up houses selling for $10,000, but now those houses are selling for $150,000 on the low end, and lofts are going for $1 million.

A lot of people have gotten hurt in real estate because they're too short-sighted. They get in too late and want to sell right away.

More and more government entities hammer out deals in secret and announce them once every last detail is decided.

In order to make deals you have to create some excess. Some guys have options, some don't.

Here we're talking about someone who deals with the connectivity of the Internet and analyzes systems. They work a lot with getting office systems converted to wireless systems.