Every single transaction he goes through is an explosion of emotion and problems and threats and lawsuits.

I think long before AI becomes a species ending threat, we will see new RE opportunities in mars domes, asteroid mining claims/housing and third world development explosion after the one world government world war rebuilding.I mean, as long as we are speculating :)

But sprawl is by far the biggest reason for the explosion.  

Traditionally fire, smoke, explosion are the only perils covered on tenant legal liability on the renters form.

That's explosive, obviously.  

It's not a big job.It is not explosive.

I saw it in the Foothills of Northern CA where we never would've expected an explosion of growth so that's why we moved!  

The difference is that you won't see as much appreciation explosion in Pittsburgh, which is as you said not always a bad thing. 15 Properties in California today though (even with a roller coaster) would be a LOT of houses in Pittsburgh if they were in Oakland with that 14% appreciation or San Fran/Vallego with that 8% plus. 

I work at a petrochemical plant and many of the buildings are explosion proof like bunkers.

Many investors bank on appreciation in this Bronx market after the explosion of Brooklyn.