But how you treat your employees can be a huge indication of your character.

That type of character will get you far in life!    

. - Then the next filter is physical property attributes with regard to its placement in the market, entrances, and exits, visibility etc

Unless you’re a very unusual individual, I believe a full service broker would be better for people who lack these attributes. 

It took me 10 years and I had the benefit of starting when RE was cheap.A business has literally the opposite character: it's primary strength is cash flow.

I know this my be a tangent for this thread, but I didn't know there were questions about Zook's character. 

When the loss occurs, which it will in one out of seven times, the unsophisticated investors does not understand it’s merely the law of mathematics and wants to attribute something sinister to a statistically verifiable event.This is why as a sponsor - syndicator - fund manager I DON’T like the deals that allow the general public to invest.  

J Scott,I am sorry if I came off as 'angry and offended', that is probably why you only have seen 1 post attributed to the profile.

I guess I'm one of those "goofy detractors", however I do not recall having levelled anything ad-hominem in nature on this thread (it would be quite out of character).I am not even certain I would call myself a detractor - If someone wants to borrow money to pay-down another debt, that is their business.  

This building was built and 1924 and has a lot of old character.