Trump with his Casinos.

Easton kinda got their act together (having a large local college on your north boundary helps), Bethlehem got a shot in one area (then again a couple billion $$ casino doesn't hurt either)... but look closer at where a fair amount of casino workers are living.So Allentown gets an arena - small, but decent enough (saves traveling to Reading for theirs).

Yet, many still gamble.We've heard businesses like In n Out was coming to town, Silverton Casinos promised a new Casino coming in by the Spring Mountain Racetrack as you enter Pahrump, and there's been talk of Harness Racing coming to Pahrump since Nevada is a gaming state but there's no horse racing anywhere and Pahrump is an excellent locationf for that which would bring in lots of revenue and create lots of jobs.

The best way to explain it is thats its like playing poker for the first time. since its your first time you wouldn't just walk up to a poker table in a casino and drop 50 grand right off the top right?

Also, is it a hassle to park at casinos?

@Jason White,My first impulse is to say no matter how much you have available you'll want to invest for income in retirement to ensure that your money is growing at such a rate that you drawing your living expenses from it will not deplete the principal during your expectable lifetime.You may want to read up on self-directed retirement accounts and other ways of being a private money lender.My personal thoughts on buying property with no loans is that its roughly equivalent to gambling in the Wall Street Casino.

The only shortcuts are ones like walking into a Vegas casino and risking way too much.

My friends sit around and smoke cigars with me and we ***** about living in Cook County when free America is 30 minutes away and they ***** about their job at JP Morgan Chase and I ***** about no profit in contracting and we both ***** about how we're not getting enough cashflow and they ***** about how their Logan Square condos that aren't performing and then we ***** about the new Bond theme song that isn't as good as the one from Casino Royale and then we see a hot girl walk by and then we ***** about why hot girls congregate in blue states and then we talk about guns.

@Tai Bhattad, Paying off liens is not a preservation improvement, but you do get reimbursed for them plus 12% interest. 

I get it that everyone wants to come to the party, especially now with prices having risen fairly dramatically, but sometimes I wonder if the Bigger Pockets room is akin to standing on the floor of a casino where a few people have won dramatic sums in some of the "skills" games (poker, blackjack, etc), and everyone else starts running out into the hallways begging for money to drop in the slot machine so they can get theirs too.Anyway, it seems an interesting philosophical question to ponder, and I'm curious what others may think!