A Biography of George HW Bush -The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World-Spark: How Old-Fashioned Values Drive a Twenty-First-Century Corporation: Lessons from Lincoln Electric's Unique Guaranteed Employment Program-Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies-The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology-The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success-Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of IntrigueWhat books have you read so far?

They break stuff on purpose to complain to try to get rent off, harass you when there is a small problem in a century old home, don't change utilities after 6 months, make the place a filthy mess.

I'm not looking for the deal of the century.

I imagine this problem extends decades, maybe centuries, into the past.

In those cases, the owner generally has a constitutional right to continue with the existing use.Here's the thing: what we think of as “zoning” didn’t become popular until the early 20th Century.

Then in 1999, the city changed the zoning to allow all of these old offices to change their zoning to residential or hotel and not have to provide parking (which being built in the early 20th century in a city that at the time had a huge public transit system, none of them had).Anyway, the point is a change in zoning suddenly gave them life and value.

@Wade KulesaI have never read or listened to Dave Ramsey but I’d suggest you change your mentor and start reading and listening to Robert Kiyosaki.The man is all about using debt and he’s wildly successful and I think he’s been around half a century.

I think the coastal CA cities would have bubbled to the top.Case Shiller has the following 3 cities as the best US cities for buy n hold return for the century: 1) San Fran 2) LA 3) San Diego. 

Nope the Japanese had it correct all these centuries  a polite bow will do.. no touching.  

You also mentioned big headquarters, and KC is home to American Century, Hallmark, Garmin, Sprint, H&R Block, Cerner (to name a few).