With LPs and REITs, you are not even the tail of the dog, you are more like a fleas on the tail of the dog.

@Mark Mahoney it’s very difficult to build up a 20 to 30 percent down payment in i Massachusetts unless you’re investing in the tail end of markets.

Sometimes they fight, other times they just don't care, and occasionally, they slink away with their tail tucked between their legs.

Whether its wholesaling/whole-tailing or flipping. 

In the seminar business, this is called "tail."

@Frank Rolfe Is there a tell tail sign that suggests it’s master-metered electric? 

(There are other distributions like leptokurtic and long-tail but let's stick with a bell curve).For example the S&P 500 over the last 10 years, according to Morningstar, has had Return: 11.64% and SD: 13.42%.

I don't like the big banks a bit, but I do understand the worthless paper they wrote was stuffed into Fannie & Freddie, so heads we lose, tails they win, and your grand kids will be footing the bill for my capital gain.

I am a new investor in the Philadelphia area, bought my first property at the tail end of 2015 at the sheriff sale (learning experience lol).  

Chinese made stuff I am getting has the plywood sides (and most of structure is also plywood), and drawers are dove tailed, and doors and drawers have soft close mechanisms.