It's actually very similar to my hometown of Winston Salem, NC....a very strange, yet balanced, blend of both college and lower-mid income rental potential.

He says buy assets, not do-dads, avoid consumer debt and debt to by assets is ok, so long as it is used responsibly ie you do your due-diligence, analysis & home work.So, I would say that for most of us on BP, and me personally, I take a blend of the two.  

If assets are going into a trust with an administrator you'll need to find one that will accept notes as they usually want marketable assets like stocks and bonds.Another option is paying part of the property value with discounted bonds, zero coupons, blending note income with appreciation of the bond as a balloon payment. 

I would have never thought to use "fake" marble but it actually works well when blended with the real deal.

I polyed the board, and it actually blends pretty well, but lesson learned, always save extra flooring!

It is not only a collection af great minds and varied experience but also a blending of old and new.  

I just calculated my overall blended ROI for the first 6 months and it’s 12 percent.

For a more industrial area, you'd likely see businesses and tradesmen storing materials, but in terms of quickly adding value to an existing self storage facility, we've been able to "dress" these converted units up - with paint and positioning - so they nearly blended into the existing facades. 

Every single deal I’ve ever done has involved some type of a blend of private and institutional financing at some stage of the deal – definitely requires knowledge.

That is the question that confronted Gaku and Yukiko Tomii, two 30-something dentists, who wanted to build a fun, unusual living space atop a hill minutes away from some of the most storied temples in the country.Their answer: T-House, a 2,152-square-foot, $669,000 modernist cube of a dwelling, which meets Kyoto's strict design regulations on the outside but bends all the rules on the inside.From the street, the simple lines and traditional white and dark-brown coloring of T-House help it blend with the traditional Japanese-style homes in the woody, suburban neighborhood of northwestern Kyoto where it is located.