This will seriously eat into your potential value after the remodel. 

With that same logic, the dinner you eat today would give you 20k cash after 30 years if you invest today.

Here are a few of the most notable projects in the works that are set to be completed within a few years:Sparkman Wharf: The rendering of the new Sparkman Wharf shows it will be a modern outdoor park space with plenty of shops, outdoor eating areas, and other small attractions.

As soon as you start, though, you're gambling there is no big problem you didn't notice up front and will eat up your profit.And appreciation? 

Work, family, eating, BP.

If they put an outside space to eat that is substantial then you decide if you want to charge a certain rent per sq ft for that as the business is generating additional sales per ft.No legal advice given. 

I'd avoid 1/1's as the turnover rate can eat your profits alive.

I live, eat, sleep real estate since I was about 12 yrs old.

Maybe there's no point to me finishing the course and I should just eat the cost?

An out of control litigious society, and the things that really eat up modern family wealth have nothing to do with what consumers would expect.