The building now was valued the same as before the 2008 financial crisis.

What began as a small downturn in the housing market became a crisis because homeowners with no equity and nothing to lose began walking away from their mortgages, further driving down the market.

I've never ran the numbers, but my gut tells me even if you had free land  it would still be more economical to buy an existing park. 

We obviously need to keep it economical, but I would like to do something creative, and I'm bored with our past designs (generally they consist of a larger field tile with horizontal accent stripe).

If you have never been there, you should learn the city/maps/economics of the area/look at hundreds of listings to understand what the market is like.

A violation of the tow statutes is also a Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), which allows for economic damages (tow charges, storage, lost wages, etc.)

At a macro economic level, it lost out on a few new developments.Bellwood is a notch above.

I wanted to quick ask what people have found to be the most economical solution to replacing water heaters for 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.

That combined with a strong positive cash flow potential and an economical growth rate that rivals other larger metropolitan cities is a huge plus. 

I don't know—I tend to think the economic response of Hurricane Harvey will be different than that of Katrina, mainly because Houston's economy is very different than New Orleans' economy.