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.

The happiest moment of my life I had $300 in my pocket, sack of clothes, box of books, my old flatbed ford, and just received my diploma. 

FedEx, Accenture, Ford is just the beginning. 

what you said pretty much sums it up. shack town is a place where you dont want to be late afternoons. lots of people without shirts sitting on their porches at night. i have houses north of ford rd

As of that month, I had owned the car almost exactly 6 years, and over the course of those 6 years I had only driven the convertible maybe 5-6000 miles.You see, I wasn’t just a Ford Mustang hobbyist.