Worry about jets and Uncle G later after you've made your first billion.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Here are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus

How can the banks keep writing off billions without it having some depression type effect?

Jeff B, I think most of the blame for the real estate crash belongs squarely on the heads of the people who bought what they couldn't afford, and are now whining about it, or walking away.But at this point, the banks are doing such ill-thought-out things that they are holding the market down.Lots of deserved blame, too, to Congress (both parties) for giving the banks billions without specifying what the money was to be used for.

Bill Clinton proposed a $30 billion stimulus and people said this was a crazy number, how could it even be considered, this will destroy our currency.

Donald Trump takes his lumps and moves forward its why he is a billion air.  

The coverage will be dropped and the house will be flagged.Any word on whether or not we can deduct this from our 800 Billion we owe them?

Their contractors claimed that they were being treated like employees, and Microsoft had to shell out billions in benefits and IRS payments to settle the suits.If Microsoft can get screwed because of gray areas in employee/contractor law, certainly little guys like me can as well.Add to that the fact that many of my employees spend at least 50% of their time working on just my projects, and the risk of being viewed as employees -- if I didn't have strong Independent Contractor Agreements -- is very real.

It's a very rough approximation I eye-balled from this article: https://www.huntsvilleal.gov/huntsville-lands-1-6-billion-toyota-mazda-manufacturing-plant/I'm off by about .3 acres, but I can't really tell where.

This was real experience where you are analyzing deals then presenting the findings and being critiqued by real estate CEOs, CFOs and portfolio managers with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in assets under management.