For me, real estate is a lot like the movie Braveheart.

Watch the movie, "Pacific Heights" with Michael Keaton.2.

We have a budget for $100 for eating out - we only eat out fancy once a month (Ted's type fancy, not Ruth Chris) and we don't binge on TV or movies, etc.As far as the rentals go, we have bought well by buying properties that are on transportation lines in up and coming areas that are in the process of revitalizing.  

Well if I had unlimited VA's I would have them start typing on unlimited keyboards until one of them wrote the worlds best screenplay or book, which I would then have published and sell the movie and toy rights :)

If not you will notice a shift in attitude.Instead we tie good tenant behavior to a discount in rent, movie tickets or something that says "we appreciate that you are a good tenant".

I am have been blessed in the business.Although I just came from the Big Short  movie and my wife and I almost left in tears... it brought back the traumatic few years were we were neck deep in the turmoil...

If an NFL team were to movie to LA, they would only do so if the taxpayers pick up the cost of the stadium.

@Mike Alder  good luck I grew up in the business.. must watch movie for any land man is Glenn Garry Glen ross... you will see how all these lots you want to buy were created in the first place.land game dates back to just after the turn of the century  ( not 2000) when promoters went through the US creating mega subdivisions prior to any state or federal land development rules.. so you have all these old tracks and the parcels have been traded for 100 plus years.. lost at tax sale bought by someone like you or my dad.. resold on terms  those folks default or lose to tax's and the cycle repeats.Florida created massive subdivisions to attract residence's since no one wanted to live in swamps and such.. think Le High and Coral Gables..  

Great book and movie!

Between the movie "Too Big To Fail" and the Occupy movements and everything else, I couldn't see supporting businesses that ran roughshod over the American people.