I know it's not what you wanted to hear but its the truth and you just gotta play the hand that you are working with. 

How do you wisely play the market to work for you? 

If you had a big liquidity event and want to play the waiting game between Uncle Sam and Father Time, it’s a good option and you can get some really nice institutional quality real estate for pennies on the dollar.In ZCF or ‘zeros’, you can structure a pay down readvance feature that unlocks some basis, and with the right debt product and structure, you can actually break out your bad basis in the form of a loan and be net positive for your anticipated tax (phantom income / income tax) carry for the next several years.

Here in Austin, we play the appreciation game.

There are many residential brokerages that will hire any warm body they can find and play the numbers game with high splits and a large number of sales reps.

@Abdoulie Sinera it's not about which county is best, it's really about which towns have the lowest amounts of inventory at specific price levels where you can possibly play.  The

Depending on your mood at game time, you can play the game aggressively (take bigger deals earlier than you should) or conservatively (stay with smaller deals longer than you should) to contrast your various outcomes using play money rather than real money.

I think it would clean up your city and be a good thing for all.. right now its so complicated that very few other than experts like you can play the game..  

Move out in 30 days so I can close with my real buyer.As soon as you close with them you'll have all kinds of excuses why they're late, and they'll play the previous paying good tenant angle on you, knowing you're not a "Real bank".

Some play the Quadrant game in Glendale but I've never been to those, so whatever tickles your fancy there is something going on in your neighboorhood.