It is a team sport!

Your friends return is also predicated on when he bought, a few short years ago property values were 30% lower and rates less than half what they are now.That being said Tampa is great because we have multiple draws: Beaches, Pro Sports, Bourgeoning Waterfront Downtown area, Busch Gardens, Midtown, World Class Airport bringing in Business and International Travelers, and more!

Sports analogy.

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies that spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

You can fix and "ugly building" by yourself but it's much more challenging to solo-fix an area (unless you have a few billion in Detroit and want to gentrify the area are your sports stadium).

Laundry is not usually a money-maker and is a break-even sport at best. 

in much the same manner as sports stars endorse NIke  and in the wine business  same thing..

The asking price has since dropped to $65,000.Hurricane ******* damaged the detached garage apartment, and while that unit does sport a new roof as a result of that catastrophe, no repairs were made to the interior.

Some are in town for a sports event, or college.

Investing in high COLA is a competitive sport.