"The road to riches is paved with borrowed money."

I like paved highways, knowing we have people chaisng bad guys keeping my tail safe so I can make money.I didn't read your post Rich, cause I'm not a techie either, I will if someone fixes it.Knowing that I pay more taxes than GE doesn't sit well with me.

They seem to be doing quite well on their own, or should I say even better with all our hard earned bailout money paving their way to continued erasure of the American middle class.

Paving costs big-time.Condos should have a reserve study.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)The good news here is that all parties in this thread are trying to do good for people, we just need to use caution as not to harm others with our unintended consequences.Since this thread is about success, I have a couple of questions that should spark some great information for people:1.

Now, my first idea with this was to just pave it over and build parking/storage for the apartments nearby.

Judith Scott said it, "Location", so let me say it MY way.LOCATIONLOCATIONLOCATIONFor instance, where I live, MANY homes have no water, no sewer, no phone, no natural gas and no paved roads.

Parking lot maintenance is another sub-contract issue, pot holes, painting handicap signs and lines can be taken care of by you local paving company.Anyway, you get the idea, sub out when you can, have at least two plumbers and electricians on call, you can really get the cost down too if you get with your local trade oraganizations getting younger guys who are licensened, but starting off.You might be adding all of this as employee overhead, don't know.

It's gotta be stimulus money that will be lost if they don't spend it so in this case the paving company saves a few jobs.

In heavy rains that property no longer had the water rention it did due to the footprint of the addition and additional paving.