The equipment will be mounted in a secured network rack in the basement.

The framing needs the plywood to keep it from racking.

Instead of doing much landscape work, in our area people buy red wooden chips throw them around.

Only a little of the glue down type do I have upstairs on wooden subfloor but haven't had any problems yet.I also just noticed after writing this that you posted this a month ago so you have probably already made your decision.

It took me many years to change my mindset and realize stocks were ownership interests in businesses (business school helped, but I struggled with it in my classes).My second book on personal finance was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which I found by accident in the book rack at the supermarket (1970s).

Also the back is large enough that I have even hauled refrigerators to rental properties, strapped ladders and mattress to roof rack.  

Yes the old rack, pack and stack are going away, but a new model will blossom.

Interest rates were so low and money so cheap they went out and racked up purchasing power in the form of low interest debt.  

For businesses there are fees for everything, they even charge a storage rack fee for repair shops!

.- A $4000 credit card balance someone racked up from the past six months of excessive shopping and entertainment…a whopping 8% of a $50,000 home.- That $6,000 family vacation to Disney World is a staggering 12% of a $50,000 property.- The $12,000 boat sitting in the neighbor’s garage he only takes out 4 times each summer, it is basically a 24% down payment for a mortgage on a $50,000 rental property.Heck, even the PS4 that I just had to have for some late night Call of Duty action and spent probably $700 on including a couple games and accessories is just a hair under 2% of the total $36,000 purchase price of the investment home I bought – and I actually find that sort of sickeningly interesting if you really put that into perspective.