The ideal way to do this would be to encourage talented people to move here along with some proportion of less talented people to mow lawns, etc.

If you are "as" outraged at one as you are the other then you have a severe problem with proportions.

Since Brad is based in Dallas and holds his seminars there, naturally a large proportion of his students are from the area, and are focusing their search there.

San Angelo is not that big, IMO, the asset protection angle is blown way out of proportion for the average investor.

Likewise, the commodity must be transferable as to use or title to be marketable.Generally speaking, a commodity will have commercial or marketable value in proportion to its utility and relative scarcity.

There would be no preferred return since we are all sharing in equity in proportion to how much money we put in the deal, in addition to my extra 20% cut for managing the asset.

It is proportional to how much you spend and if you do any value add to the property.

Rents are higher, but not always proportionally higher.  

In this case, to be the most effective, all the tenants should team up and deduct a proportional share.This LL sounds like a slumlord

I think it's surprising nobody finds this worrisome:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031300703.html?hpid=topnews

Any comments?