Moving the credit card debt from an unsecured revolving line to your house or borrowing or taking from your 401 is just masking the symptom.  

Maybe the labor shortage is a symptom of people rejecting the "buy more stuff" lifestyle. 

However, it was summer 2016, and all of a sudden, I had some weird symptoms and these symptoms didn’t go away.

THere are no SF units to rent in this area / price range (greater DC metro) so i'd expect to find tenants maybe more accepting of it if they don't have the symptoms like my current tenant is having, but I also generally don't want my tenants exposed to secondhand smoke :-(

Buying The Wrong PropertyWhile buying the wrong property can be a symptom of the previously mentioned mistakes, I think it’s one of the biggest mistakes you could make as an investor.

@Frank Rizzo  was the soot the symptom of the issue or is it what came out the chimney during repair?   

Glaeser believes the riots were a symptom of the city's already downward trajectory:While the 1967 riots are seen as a turning point in the city’s fortunes, Detroit’s decline began in the 1950s, during which the city lost almost a tenth of its population.

We only have a single vacant unit (the one we are renovating), so have not been hurt by our decision.Poor pets, or child, behaviour is only the symptom, not the cause ... the actual problem lays with the owners/parents.

IMO you are focusing on the symptoms, not the disease.

You probably haven't seen the slugs when you've been there because they usually only come out at night, early morning.Our slugs were a symptom of moisture in the crawl space caused by leaking pipes.