Thanks Will, by the way I really enjoyed your recent podcast segment.

Its better to find out what will be allowed than the spend time attracting tenants that wont get approval later.Beyond that, some markets are becoming centralized, meaning a collection of one service or retail segment.

Turns out they were doing great and had a backlog of work from their target customer segment.What this illustrates to me is that there are different customer segments and value received is a perception based on customer wants and needs.

It's easy enough that a trained monkey could do it, which is fortunate, because that's a large segment of the Hvac industry out here.

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Some segments of the office market, like healthcare are in good demand, due to the fact there's 10,000 baby boomers reaching 65 each day, and will be for the next 20 years, so anything that is affected by the boomers is good to look at.

In my experience (limited to the areas I have invested in Memphis, Dallas, Denver, south Florida, Salt Lake City) the demand for condos goes up during economic booms times, but is absolutely the first market segment to disappear during crisis.

I think you may be sold on flip/short sale/reality tv style scenarios and believe this is the only type of investing out there - this is very far from the truth, it's only one small segment of the property investment market.

Flipping and land lording go hand in hand these 2 segments of this business can be nice together since often times they run opposite in cyclical growth patterns.

LOL, guess I could have said that, yes, and that can only happen with a broader approach in understanding the big picture, the whole residential industry in your market, not one segment. :)