If you are so concerned about breathing mold or being exposed to asbestos you need to stop looking at potential rehab properties. 

When you tell yourself you need to succeed as badly as you need to breathe, then you will succeed.Ray

We breathe in mold spores everyday and they are part of life.

I wouldn't hold your breath on that mall... they started planning for it before the bust and now, a decade later, they're talking the developer might not pull through on their end of the bargain and the land might revert to city ownership until they can find a developer who can pull the project off.  

When a couple of landlords filed a suit against the Council, on the grounds that judges being unelected officials should not be legislating -- (hold your breath, for the incredible insanity yet to come) - the state Assembly stepped up to deliver the coup de grace.SF ***.

DOW Index Fund would give you 11-13% returns and you would just have to keep breathing to make the money.

You don't know what happened, so I'd suggest taking a deep breath and finding out what happened.

Sounds like you just need to take a deep breath, get your second wind and finish this marathon!

It's true that you can buy more properties if you use more leverage (less down in each property), but that also means your fixed mortgage payments are higher which means you have less flexibility / breathing room if things don't go well or as expected (i.e., it's higher risk).At this stage of the market I see a lot of virtue in choosing a lower leverage (20% down) option, but again that's really a personal choice.

It can easily be looked at as the devil in disguise.Let's all take a moment and breathe.