My parents were told the hardships they had to endure were caused by gamblers who treated stocks as lottery tickets and stocks were a fraud to begin with.

Last year I finally upgraded from my 98 civic to a C6 but I love the gallardos but I have been sleuthing for a slick deal on a GTR.Congrats man, I always say to aim high on the goals.

and your larger NNN deals.It's clear Opus wasn't sufficiently capitalized to endure the downturn.  

I will have to look a little further away, and I am considering the fact a property in Chicago would be a schlepp, whereas an apartment near to where I am in the town would be manageable myself (my wife is also a home maker and so she would prolly try it out before resorting to a PM).I like the math working out where if you have to go to a PM worse-case, the math still endures.  

We had to involve the police (residents tax dollars at work) and then the neighbors had to endure several weeks of rehab work.So, while I agree to an extent that one should be able to use their property to their liking, if the use is creating externalities that create a burden on other residents, including city expenditures/tax burden, then I see this as a problem. 

Various public buildings, community centers, schools -- they all help.But the strangest pocket neighborhoods in this town sometimes seem to form and endure for no visible reason at all in areas that were previously C-class and slid slowly into D-class ten or twenty years ago.

On the other hand, you might find that treating people like human beings will make them stay longer saving turnovers and enduring rent increases. 

I have always believed education and experience is critical to enduring success.

I'm in the Sacramento area and had to do a little sleuthing...I found from contacting the owner of a regular coin operated laundromat that you need to contact this company.  

who was NOT getting their cut ...and the bureaucracy of  participants who  were "slick" enough to endure and make money.