If you want appreciation, identify markets with expanding industries, positive growth trends, and bright economic forecasts.Columbus, OH, is where most of my clients invest, and it's a mix of both cashflow and appreciation.

You can't "lie" about values in this industry, all data is there and accessible to all.

You guys are all over-thinking this, I think.Fannie Mae and the mortgage industry follows the same federal fair housing laws that everyone else does, and she wouldn't be doing business in any state where her guidelines break the local laws.

But working in the industry is where the real education is.3 Yes, some of the largest wealthiest companies in CA are construction companies.We definitely need more licensed contractors in N CA. 

The build-to-rent trend has been on the rise, thanks to Hedge Funds and Wall Street getting heavily involved in the industry.

I have worked as a construction manager and most recently I am building a software for the construction industry and I can help with some recommendations. 

The mortgage & re industry does not want to see seller finances and the banks don't want to see their loans that they underwrote transferred.

Tell us the truth.If we all spent more time being honest and transparent about what we've done, what we are doing, and why we are we doing it, this industry would be a lot easier for everyone, especially newer investors.Let me know your take below.

Long-Term Relationships: He felt that most people in the industry were too focused on the deal in front of them that they weren’t thinking about the long term.

Closed off spaces were just as @Bruce Woodruff said, a relic of times when you either had servants that worked in industrial spaces and methods that were a lot more crude than today, or when people were poor and could only afford to decorate out a single room as a "proper" place to entertain guests.