Sorry for de-railing the thread.  

When you compare cars, a Ferrari and a Ford Pinto both will get you from point A to B. 

@Lydia Ford - thanks for the tip!

I’ve never heard of a 2017 Ford Mustang mysteriously catch on fire.    

If anyone is masochistic enough to be looking for an exercise or case study in this, look up the Federal Realty Investment Trust project at Assembly Square in Somerville MA:  a former Ford plant turned barren wasteland with (over time) multiple environmental matters on site to clean up.   

All one had to do was follow the economic history of GM, Ford and Chrysler and you would have had a lot of warning before Detroit went bankrupt.The other parts of of the program focused on putting together all of this into an Excel Spreadsheet with assumptions on the future 10 years such as why use 3% versus 6% appreciation Rate, what will be the cash flows if rents increased 3% while expenses increased 5% annually for the remaining 10 years, what will be the Mortgage Balance at the end of 10 years, etc.The beginning of each class started out with me asking questions to assess the absorption of the previous classes information.

I have yet to drive a client anywhere in my car, and most of my clients in my market drive cars that are on the same “level” as mine, clean exterior, newer (about 5ish years old or less), practical/everyday makes like Chevy, Ford, Honda, Subaru (what I drive) etc.

Originally posted by @Graeme Ford:@Jeff Copeland thank you for your response!

I feel as though I'm thinking like a Ford when I should be thinking like a Ferrari.

I think a suitable analogy is electric cars, its the difference between ford coming out with an electric car that is basically a ford festiva with  bunch of batteries stuffed in the front seats and the gas fill spout converted for a 110v socket compared to a tesla which was designed from the ground up to function as a sleek electric vehicle that is sexy and beats all records.