If you disagreed originally on pricing, then maybe shoulder a bit more of the blame.

I became his crying shoulder and confidant, stopping by once a week or so with beers and a sandwich.

Chances are no one is going to call you or tap you on the shoulder and say you should learn X niche.....but they're there if you want to plug in. 

During our shoulder season, bookings dwindled down to very low occupancy...in all but one of my properties.

Use to just be a summer spot but more and more people are visiting in the shoulder seasons too. 

Where do you own in Michigan and is there much of a shoulder season there? 

You've probably seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

As you know from being in the area, New England is a region of 10k communities, each looking over their shoulders to decide on municipal direction to take because each community alone lacks the legal and logistical resources alone to enact categorical change.

If you follow these steps, you'll end up with a basic installation that's head and shoulders above what most window companies will charge you hundreds of dollars for.

In the end, what I anticipate will happen is that I will end up with a blend of both active and passive investments with the trajectory leaning towards passive investments as we continue to age.Even the relatively small amount of passive investments I have started last year has taken a bit of a load off my shoulders.