I hear so many people complaining about general contractors that take deposits for repairs, and run off like The Music Man, never to be seen again, having never made a repair.  

And if you don't follow the guidelines precisely, you can be caught without a chair when the music stops.  

That Mexican joint looks like it has been there for a couple decades and it appears they have 3 catering vans.

In response, the industry - with Ford in the forefront - turned in a significant way to hiring African-Americans, who were leaving the South in huge numbers in response to the combination of a post-war agricultural slump and continuing Jim Crow practices.[7] At the same time large numbers of southern whites were hired, as well as large numbers of Mexicans, since immigration from most of the western hemisphere was not restricted at all by new immigration quotas.By 1930 Detroit's population had grown to nearly 1.6 million, and then to nearly 2.0 million by its peak shortly before 1950.

There is only one place I may need to 1031 for a more profitable one.Our goal is dependable monthly cashflow - we'd like to be able to live off of it sometime in the next 5 years so I can slow down my day job as a music producer and spend more family time. 

Appreciation and cash flow.You can make an analogy of this and see this as an instrumentalist playing solos over the chords of your favorite song.In western music, there are 12 notes.

I also have a video production business (www.houstonstreetproductions.com) which provides services for film, video, music video, commercials, promotional videos, voice overs, etc. 

We checked a college age tenant's My Space page once and it revealed that for fun he likes to drive through Muchas Gracias (the local Mexican fast food place) drunk at 2 am and order burritos.

Hello fellow real estate junkies, I have been lurking on the site for a while now, shamelessly devouring as much information as I can possibly digest. I'm currently a single family home investor with a steady day job ...

Also ask your self, who controls the Mexican government?