I can get 20" tile laid on the diagonal for about $1.10 per sq ft.

If you can save $100K in the next 3 years, then you can reasonably assume it will maintain parity with what you think $100K could buy you today.  

Most turn keys have there standards and your right there is no parity to it.. so a buyer should get a rehab scope of work and compare exactly what was done and then have a 3rd party inspection verify that its done as noted.

The new heat-pump electric tanks put electric almost on parity with NG, so I'm actually not inclined to do tankless at all anymore in any application.And I like cool new things. 

Our property is in the forest and diagonal shape.

I was planning to just install the single piece 22" depth formica tops from HD and cut to fit, but notice the diagonal piece above the DW which is deeper than the 22".

You need 2 egresses. the 2 doors must be over half the diagonal distance from each other.

Based on both fundamental and technical analysis the euro will hit parity with the dollar late in 2010 or early 2011.

If your rents are behind because you are behind (on maintaining rent parity) then it doesn't seem ethical to burden good long term tenants by making up the difference in a year or two...

As the cost of living increases drastically, so do worker wages to keep parity (though at a delay to the market).