@Rick Lucette be careful if locking yourself into that long of a lease, especially if things don't go well, they are maintenance monsters, payblate , etc...

What I’ve been debating is pausing my recurring robot advisor deposits (about 12% of my overall “extra cash” each month) and channel that into my REI fund (about 35% percent of my extra cash)I think you made some great points @Bill F.

Big businesses like Google, Uber, Apple, Facebook and Autodesk..even ARGO AI from Ford..have paved the way for Pittsburgh's tech makeover fueled by CMU's robotic, sciences and technological innovations.

This is also what makes for monster yield in note buying.

That is because they get their own dedicated parking lot and drive thru's typically versus shared parking with other tenants in a center.They also get single visibility from a stand alone building versus shared.If I have market rents for retail center space but it's a Starbucks with monster sales and a 5 to 10 year lease then pretty much a given they will keep paying the rent.

Dodd-Frank is a monster and there is more in there than most could really comprehend.

I would love to hear from anyone who found real estate not only as a great way to increase their assets, but as a way to feed the creative monster I believe is inside of all of us.

I was really good at it, because I took emotion out of it (I barely use emotion for anything), and was very cold strategic robotic, all by the numbers.I took a JV route.

I feed my excel monster the same data for fixed up properties on another page.Based on this alone, I should know where investors are buying, and where their flips should be selling.

@Jordan Petty, you are asking for monster trouble unless you have tons of cash laying around.