The tenant had a home OWNER mentality, but got caught up in the housing boom and lost his home to foreclosure 3 years ago.

The berkshires really didn't boom in the mid 2000's and also didn't crash too hard either.

Now, we live in southern oregon, with a small-ish town (200k people i believe), and we were hit super hard by the boom-bust. houses that were selling for 1.5million+ are now selling for somewhere around 300k.

Have them go back and look at the historical useage for that building and see if the usage has been gradually or abruptly increasing.I'd say you either have one or more leaks, or someone is running a car wash and laundromat out of your building.

It feels as if Seattle is going through a tech-boom of some sort with Amazon,Google and Microsoft hiring like crazy!

Some more heavy weights weigh in on Phoenix. http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2013/02/13/another-real-estate-boom-for-phoenix.html?

Certain parts of New Orleans are experiencing a boom, it could be this one next.

It was common during the building boom of 2005-2007.Most of the houses are made of either wood studs or steel studs with concrete block on the outside and covered by stucco.

@Yang Xiao downtown apartment building is booming.

@Maverick Voigt , you could absolutely accomplish that in Oklahoma City in an OK area, plus we have a booming economy and it's warm more than its cold.