I like some Dems and some Repubs and refuse to follow herds when it comes to who I vote for.Good luck!

Then down turn happens and the herds really get thinned out fast.

Just like E PA and parts of Oakland etc.with the new Ferry the proximity to jobs  Seems like a no brainer to get ahead of the curve or the herd as it were ?  

Some folks raise thousands of cattle at a time, some have a herd of a hundred, some keep one or two cows in corrals on their 1 acre house. 

I would definitely be wary of following the herd buy investing in any MF class A. 

I also think that its a great time to thin the herd and get rid of the worst performing assets and keeping the best performing.

IREM has a white paper on the difference between property and asset management (industry term for managing the manager): http://www.irem.org/Bookstore/eBooks/id-13374117/I...When it comes to staffing my experience owning a general contracting company taught me that you need to have that function centralized, in the case of real estate preferably by the property management company so that you're not in the cat herding business.

jeff pollack : I have never herd of HELOC i will do so reading on it . do you know of the pros and cons ? 

Make money for one investor and the herd will find you :)

This way you will not be in the herd of the "how low can you go" club scratching by and being used.