TLDR: the wise city council has moved on from solving global warming by banning plastic grocery bags and is now on a mission to protect innocent homeowners from you predatory investors. http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/city-moves-t...

I was thinking more globally (for the city as a whole) than just for myself.I was looking at all of the fixers in actual D-town...all brick..."

My in-house property manager was just asking if there's a simpler way we can start managing calendar inputs so they tie to projects and provide a global view.

Use population growth, infrastructure growth, and job growth now to determine if your area will be vibrant in 10 years.

Marco,If you go to a local bank and apply for a commercial loan in the name of a LLC or not, the bank will look at both your debt to income ratio and global debt service ratio meaning they evaluate cash flow of the property + debt to income.

Those agreements are negotiated at a very high corporate level and are often 3 - 5 year engagements that insert the tenant rep brokerage firm on a national or even global level.You have a few options:Refuse to pay the fee outright and hope your deal doesn't blow up.

As a global investor who survived 3 currency crisis in Russia i can tell you - right now (with 3-5 year horizon) the dollar is the nicest house in the bad neighborhood.

It s really interesting how current global trends would affect US RE market

-Prepayment penalty for first 5 years (5% of principal balance in year one down to 1% in year 5)-Checking account with bank offering note, avg daily balance of $10k-Annual review of my Global Debt Service Coverage (GDSC) & Standalone debt-service-Rates are around 5.5% (FHLB +3.5), readjusting every 4yrsThe GDSC seems to state that if my income drops, they could call the note, which doesn't seem very sporting of them.

@Antwaun JohnsonWelcome to the vibrant BP community.