A known or unknown bottle of alcohol is on premise, consumed by the transient guest.

The single approach you may get through these next few years is to assume outside the box, educate yourself, and build a robust network online and in your community.The world as you recognize it's on the brink of a return to associate degree abrupt halt.

Good points J ScottThere is a long list of activities to do and habits to develop that that we can do to live longer lives.Using hand santizer & sunscreenEating a balanced, heart-healthy dietExerciseBrush & flossAbstain from tobaccoUse alcohol in moderationetc.Some people choose to follow what experts agree will extend our lives because they enjoy those activites.It is wonderful that they have the freedom to choose to do so.I'll stop there before wandering into politica debate.

GOAL - To create a robust real estate portfolio for generations to come.

These low rates ignited robust purchase activity, which is up 25% from a year ago and has been growing at double digit amounts for four consecutive months.

I suspect the same would happen to you as well.its not like you need the cash flow to live ( as I think you have a robust RE brokerage business that probably pays your bills) and your exotic car 's  :)Or ,Sell it all now and pay the small cap gain tax and then use those funds to match up to a facility and start lending... you could get 2 to 1 leverage so .1.3 nets you 1mil  1 mil leverage ( I use to leverage 4 to 1  but say today its 2/ to 1) now you have 2mil to put out in your local market at a conservative 15%  thats 300k a year Net cash flow minus 60k for your 1mil borrowed net 240k a year plus you can be in cash in any one 12 month period if you needed to... so this triples your current cash flow.Do some equity deals on your loans and you may make 500k with those same funds.Take some of the rentals.. sell them and 1031 into premium timber ground in the northwest..

But in other areas of the country were RE is not as liquid and the markets not as robust..

Alcohol and tobacco business have no problem with banking.

They use the same imagery, but Google Earth is a much more robust environment that gives you tons of additional information.One advantage of using Google Earth would be the ability to pull in more than one vendor's data for the same home, on a single map.  

Am looking at corecon.com which expresses on their website that it is a robust PM/CM software that will eventually iron out some of my constantly changing standards (trying to improve but sometimes I forget my own rules/standards).