I do hire out when time is a factor. I

We also stopped at several Gems factories.

The root problem is the barriers in place to prevent our ability to produce quality, competitively priced products.Not all factory or warehouse workers are union, I know the three warehouses I worked at were Not.

In multi's the repair factor is a given on places to be ripped off be it labor or materials.

This is where it gets down to cracking the nut, is there a sewer comming through, any factories proposed down the street, any external obsolesence that has not been disclosed, rezonning issues...if I see several for sale signs in a neighborhood I'm concerned!

The Fitness Factory on Hughes, how are they doing?

Others, like me, treat the investment like stock, we don't visit the factory or office of the company we own stock in, we just look at the financials.

We saw it at the dawn of the Industrial age when people were moving from farms to factories and becoming consumers rather than producers.

I agree that crosslinking is valuable, but if we start allowing people to pitch every one of their blog articles in the forums as well, then the forums just become a link factory once again -- something we want to avoid.

Over times when factories closed down the lower middle class moved to the bigger houses and the low class move to the workers' houses.