“Shortages of vacant developed lots and regulatory hurdles in Austin make it difficult for meaningful housing development activity to occur within Austin’s city limits.”This is a major issue to be addressed in CodeNEXT, the first major overhaul of Austin's land development code in 30 years:“Next to CodeNEXT, the City’s selection of a new city manager will have the single-greatest impact on the direction of our region’s future and the sustainability of Austin's housing market, so it’s critical that local community stakeholders and business leaders have the opportunity to weigh in on this important decision,” concluded Guthrie.

Sac put a lot of effort into getting it's nightlife back, they have a terrible basketball team but the new arena sparked new life to that area.

So, as long as you know what you are looking at I think they are both meaningful.

I have been looking it the protest going on around the U.S. and it sparked a couple questions in my head.

The fact that you want to save, and you are in a position to "salt-away" some meaningful dollars, is really cool!

@Taylor Chiu Your thread certainly sparked a debate as to whether pot smokers should be evicted or left alone to enjoy their munchies. 

Can anybody list some resources that did the following for them:- Sparked interest/passion in personal finance- Changed their outlook on finance/investing- Actually got into the nitty gritty of specific types of investments- Just proved useful when studying personal finance in some other waySome of my favorite personal finance materials so far are:The Four Hour Work Week - Tim FerrisThe Millionaire Next Door - Thomas Stanley + William DankoRich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert KiyosakiFor more in depth study, I look to Coursera courses and of course blogs like BP.  

There have been some delays in getting rent checks but we have negotiated after a period they will be switching to direct ach which I have set up via intuit's spark rent system.

Every deal that ive ever done has been with someone who didnt live here in my market.above all real estate has changed my life......i am probably the 2nd most disciplined person that i know.....Because of real estate i started reading books......books changed my life......i started with rich dad poor dad and so on.....its sparked a new journey of self development for me......i get up at 430 and meditate, pray, affirmations, gratitude and then off to the gym.....i gave up red meat a few years back and i currently fast for 48 hours straight, weekly.....im physically a different person from 5 years ago and im grateful for that.......if there was a piece of advice that i could give you, read books.....not even really real estate books......this business is majority mindset.......focus on that and work on your discipline and you will go far........i can gift you RDPD if you dont have a copy

I only want to be in areas the spark joy in my life.