Either way, real estate will eventually re-align itself to the rest of the economy.I see just today, the Finance Minister announce a further restriction to CMHC residential mortgage insurance as an effort to apply a little break to markets (primarily in Toronto and Vancouver).

I have lived through furnaces being stolen from the property, water heaters taken, siding removed from  the houses that had siding,   Copper pipes being ripped out of our houses, to Ministers who rented our homes saying they could visualize themselves living there forever, but inside meaning to never pay the rent of course.

Reminds me of a TV "minister" who went to prison, he's out, got a different wife that doesn't have tattooed eyebrows, he's back on TV south of Branson pitching his same old stuff.

Second situation: borrower is a minister and financing backed out on a deal they had on a house.

Thanks for your kind words mate,I've been plugging away trying to book in my second but I think Josh thinks I'll call him a w@#$er again so maybe there is slight hesitance there haha@Darren Sager any news or do I have to wait for another gig after I become the new Prime Minister of Australia?

If the process has no meaning and not consequence based on different inputs then there’s no point, the whole exercise becomes a “Yes, Prime Minister” episode.If you had an atm card and the pin input was irrelevant to withdrawing cash from your account, how useful would you judge it?

My church ministers to down-and-out folks in our community. 

Writ large on a world stage – take Trump or Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, venting unmediated fury for political effect – we can see how denaturing it is, how it gates off all other, less exhilarating responses, such as empathy.This thread has devolved into a virtual stoning.  

Since you're in Houston I wouldn't try it in that, or any other TX market.I agree with MikeOH about ignoring unsolicited emails, unless it's from my cousing Nduku who used to be the Nigerian Minister of Oil, he's got a great deal for you.BTW, I don't do deals with anyone who spends a lot of time trying to convince me what a big time operator he is, or can't spell or use good grammar.all cash

I know a landlord who rents high-end, fully-furnished units (in retrofitted old historic buildings) near the legislature to government ministers at rates 2-3 times what a standard apartment in the area would fetch.