Philadelphia's current population is 1,600,000 versus 2,071,000 in 1950. 

There are many angles to make far more money thru your housing, versus investing somewhere else.

The Sierras suck the rain out of the storms so it has the 1000s of lakes and the area to the east of them are dryer (not the same)living in San Diego versus arizona or utah is no comparison weather wise.  

Day trips to the lakes versus overnights makes a lot of sense.

I might add a comment or two to this strain....the note business has many facets...performing vs non performing, institutional versus owner financed paper.  

We love that our guests are almost always repeat visitors, making the AirBnB feel like an extension of our home versus a true commercial business.

Are there restrictions on credit reporting for CFDs versus mortgages/DOTs.

Your only real question here is how much additional equity can you earn before you sell before the rate resets and before you lose your capital gains exclusion, versus the opportunity costs if you sold and cashed out now.

There are some out there that invite speakers versus take checks from speakers.

If you get up to 30,000 envelopes per month and do it in house for an average cost of 37.5 cents versus outsourcing it for 61cents (Click2Mail.com price) you'll be saving over $7,000 per month.