HomeVestors
of America, Inc. has ranked Houston as the second-best market in the United
States for real estate investing in the first quarter of 2008.
Dallas
took the No. 1 spot while Fort Worth was ranked fourth and San Antonio was
ranked seventh.
HomeVestors,
the company famous for its "We Buy Ugly Houses" billboards, bought
more than 34,000 homes in the U.S. over the past 11 years and based the
findings on the number of houses bought in each market by the franchise network
in the first quarter of 2008.
The
Dallas-based company has more than 250 franchises through the U.S