I just know when we visited the friends farm and he outlined about $80,000 in income he was getting for land that no one was using and as a real estate investor, that just seemed amazing to me.Getting paid for doing nothing from the government, getting people to buy his grass and he backs up to a landlocked nature preserve, so he gets paid by the government again to drive across his land so they can get to the nature preserve that they are studying for something. 

So while the US government treats my mortgage interest as a cost, the UK government doesn't.

Source of income is the protected class and you can absolutely accept applications from section 8 tenants but deny each one not based on the source of their income but on the fact that the HAP program requires you to enter into separate agreements with the government that modify the terms and conditions of your lease which you do not have to agree to (assuming your state has a HAP addendum to the lease for section 8 tenants).

The government will eventually get their piece no matter how many times something is deferred.

We started getting bids and guarantees from city government, Burlington Northern Railroad,  Utilities, Carpet Layers, House Movers, Insurers,  Landscapers, etc. 

I liked having spent hours research markets and neighborhood and government programs, so that I felt more educated to have a conversation with my realtor, rather than him just tell me his opinion. 

I am sure a government town paid decent? 

Just google something like "Banks in Mississippi" and chances are one of the options on the first few pages of google will be the link to the state government website you're looking for.

Perhaps your state has some written laws governing tree removal. 

The current government is doing what they can to encourage growth and prosperity in the area as well.Downtown and Notre Dame multifamily does concern me currently, I think they are building far too much premium (A-Class) stock in the area right now.