A friend of her daughter stepped on the tissue holder in the main bathroom made it collapsed and left a big hole on the wall.

I'm Nathan,I wanted to start a conversation on the future of commercial real estate and the opportunities that will be presenting themselves in the next few years. The residential markets are getting tighter and tight...

The staircase collapsing was more concerning to me. that takes a lot neglect I would think.

I'm a single father, a consultant by day, an aspiring real estate mogul in Kingwood TX (Houston) and Austin.Through the insanity of the pre-collapse mortgage lending, I bought my first house in Austin back in 2003 when I was 18 with no credit.

When my little 3br 1ba value was at about $500,000 value before the last RE collapse, I told my wife that we should sell.

Can't remember the price, but I do remember thinking that the extra 20 feet in length to skip 20 feet of concrete and only have to cut through 10 feet of asfault was about $2000 less.A few years later the pipe collapsed again further up in an area that hadn't been replaced yet.  

Demand drove prices to unrealistic levels.After the crash, demand was heavily dampened by job loss and dearth of lending while at the same time supplies became stagnant due to developers and builders succumbing to the collapse of the economy.Today, housing starts are again returning to pre-run-up levels, albeit slowly while pent-up demand has produced an actual housing shortage.

I did end up buying a condemned duplex in Minneapolis though that had one of the foundation walls completely collapsed into the basement.

It seems they would rather let the house collapse than let someone improve the neighborhood. 

I was really hoping my target fund would have 'collapsed' this morning like they said last night.