First, you must talk their language...

then you can do business with them. Real Estate investors talk in short hand. Here is some help with translations.

Rod Thomas Blog had this today.

A second good source is, of course, possibly the greatest repository of human knowledge, Wikipedia. If you have joined the Firefox revolution, you can simply type wiki then space then your search query into your address bar to access the wiki. e.g. wiki wayward girls hostels

Doug