If he doesn't show he's learned and grown from that, he might soon be out or at least kicked to the Board.

Having grown up there (and still visit family) I am familiar with the area.

In my opinion it us as grown ups that have a hard time with such changes because we become accustomed to certain things and find it hard to change our habits. 

Okay so my kids are grown up so we're actually thinking about downsizingand taking about $450-$500K equity from the sale to invest in some morerental properties....We have 4 rent houses at the moment.  

Houston metro is the 27th largest economy in the world (just behind Belgium and ahead of Nigeria, in case you were wondering), has more small business job growth than any other city in the US, and since I moved here 13 years ago has grown by 1.7M people in the metro area.

I'm pretty confident that it won't get taken back given the boarded up windows, and severely over grown yard.

As a home-grown Illinoisan, myself, I can assure you that Chicago sees these fluctuations.Although things slow down, it's actually a good time to be out there with less retail competition.

We have both been married before and have six grown kids and two grands between the two of us.

Hi,I have wanted to get into investing in real estate for a couple of years but now that I'm out of college and have a full time job with a little bit of savings my excitement to get involved has really grown, which led me to the Bigger pockets podcast and now here!

Just be grown up and professional if any of you take me up on that challenge.