And both Real Estate and Remodeling are intensely competitive industries with a plethora of offerings out there, making both the "Olympics" of marketing. 

A good majority of the water events will be held at the Long Beach Aquatic Center during the LA28 Olympic games.In Orange County, all the beach towns are STR unfriendly.

It is tougher to host beer Olympics in The Ohio State University dorms

Could be Arlington, Houston, LA, NY, Sydney, Tokyo...Your goals dictate your strategy, your strategy dictates if its a good deal or bad deal..Sorry not trying to avoid your question but unless I have a clear understanding of what your goal is I can not know if something is a good deal or bad deal..

A roof is a roof, and if you want to leave with that water heater, you need to pay Home Depot in real $s, not %s of rent.I'm working on acquiring an apartment building in Tokyo at the moment.

The Olympics coming in 2010 probably don't hurt either.

Just out of curiosity, what made you pick Osaka while living in Tokyo?

Many years ago I listed the home of a Olympic Gold Medal winner, she was one terrific person, but she married the biggest jerk I ever met to this day.

There was also cigarette butts in the exterior sliding window tracks where I used a toothbrush and a shop vac to get them out so the windows could work.They had plugged up the bathtub and the cockroaches were training for the swimming Olympics doing the backstroke and the butterfly.

My wife and I recently moved back to Atlanta (Decatur), Georgia, from Tokyo, Japan.