City fathers usually do whatever they like with little consideration to any minority and their actions are usually are grounded in some economic goal.

The bottom line is there is a "right way" to invest successfully in other markets as a buy-and-hold investor.Selecting your market comes down to fundamentals like employment, job growth, and other economic factors.

Loss of economic ground for the area and so on.

In that event, the investor can weather systematic calamaties, such as an across the board drop in market rents of 25% caused by a deep and prolonged economic downturn.

Here we are today, and if those people had spent as much time and energy focused on investing as they did on "preparing for the end," they'd have made a lot of money over the past few years.Nobody knows where the economy is headed, and even economic geniuses can't account for the non-monetary factors that influence national and global markets.

Dallas is a rather good place to be (macro-economically).

We are also interested in mobile home parks and commercial properties.I agree with others on the postings and podcasts, in that if you look at the broad economic future for our country, and for whichever state you live in, it is a certainty that the Fed will continue to print money to distort the paper and other markets and that *actual* inflation will continue to rise.

If you buy, rent for one month, and then move into it the IRS would most likely disqualify your 1031 Exchange unless you can prove that you did have the intent, but business, economic or life reasons changed your intent.

Looked at tear downs for existing utilities & easy permitting to save but no luck so far.If I can build 3 duplexes on one larger lot, economic multipliers help out a lot-I can get the land down to 75K (HALF)-Utilities 7.330K per duplex.

Actually, it was economically depressed going into it - and has been for the last 20 years according to the veteran locals.