Are you glad to not be a brick of ice anymore?

So I get good mental exercise here, or try to, while getting some added REI "fix" and if I can get challenged that's just extra credit, as is learning something new is icing on the cake. 

Will they respond at 2am when the basement floods from the ice maker?

Ice cream melts.

We've bought water, flood, fire, ice, mud, and mold damaged houses, none of them were much fun.  

Which means avoid getting on thin ice.

I have done interior ivy walls, ice cream makers, fresh squeeze orange juice, and even converted an outdoor shed into a "Van Gough Art Studio" to give 1 house a leg up.

I recommend that, instead, investors view appreciation as icing on the cake, a bonus that will assist in the investment but is not the basis of that investment.

For me Appreciation is icing on the cake and an after thought as I have NEVER concerned my self about APPRECIATION.  

Is it good way to break the ice.