Heating costs go up in winter, as does electricity due to the reduced natural light and more people indoors.

Many of them are in beautiful and safe rural areas, and yet there is insufficient demand for them.

They became rich doing whatever they did to accumulate the cash.PS  The natural law function of inflation is to cancel debt. 

I did see quite a few gas stations with bars and what not.I have no doubt there are beautiful, wealthy, safe parts of the city, but I found them few and far between on my trip

It's beautiful country out there.

So far so good as I have been getting the ball rolling, having bought over a half dozen tax liens so far, and doing thorough research on properties has become more natural with every new lien.But now I must ask: does anyone know anything about TaxSaleResources.com?

Response to #1: Some lenders allow for layered entities while others want warm bodies/natural persons to be direct managers.

If you do that people will naturally flock to you wanting to help / mentor you.Good luck! 

The building represented good value and is consistent with my focus on $2M-$5M total cost projects where there is a lack of natural market participants in the Philadelphia market.

Lots of issues with HOA, insurance, natural disasters etc.