alcohol....lots of alcohol.

And without doubt, the pandemic injected trillions into the economy that have been slow to burn off.So let’s look at 3 charts: Personal Savings Rate as a percentage of disposable personal income, Credit Card use, and Consumption as a percentage of GDP.Disposable Personal Income is after all taxes are paid.

It seems that beyond submetering, we as Philly landlords have no recourse in regard to this issue, no matter if it's due to consistent tenant overuse or the city making wild guesses about water consumption.

Im not saying consume for the sake of consumption.

Look to the utilities as to seasonal variances that reflect consumption with occupancy.How much money are we talking here?

@Marcus Auerbach I wonder if you assume that the cash flow from cash flow properties an investor owns goes into consumption by the investor? 

Broken education system, drugs, alcoholism and disease issues.US looks good even if it is bad..

I’d imagine conspicuous consumption and recreation would be the first cutbacks from someone’s budget in a crunch.

What are you saying, that giving a bottle of Grey Goose to your alcoholic tenant is a bad idea?

If you are an alcoholic zero alcohol is a good policy.