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He now doesn't think I'm just wildly taking a gander at real estate.

My best friend us a retired construction worker who helps keep me right-sized and counters my sometimes wild plans. 

I'm an MBA student and we're trying to gauge homeowner concern/response towards wild fires and we've come up with some creative ways one can take to protect their home or investment property in fire prone areas.My question to the forum is: From a 1 being lowest to 10 being highest, how to do rate your concern for wild fire affecting your real estate property?

Glisch of The Sentinel StaffHOUSTON — Not far from the granite skyscrapers simmering in the haze of downtown Houston, the dreams of thousands of Texans have ended in bulldozed fields overgrown with weeds and wild summer grass.The site was supposed to have been a massive subdivision, one of hundreds that sprang up overnight when the oil industry boomed during the 1970s and early 1980s, sending this sprawling, get-rich-quick city on a seemingly endless joy ride.But the ride has long since ended, the victim of a depressed oil market that has ravaged Houston's oil-addicted economy and left vacant lots and ''For Sale'' signs as visible scars of how quickly the good times turned bad in the nation's fourth-largest city.''

The City would not let you do any of these things twenty years ago and now its Wild West for the builders with no, none, nada improvements in the street for sewage, sidewalks with curbing and especially parking and storm drainage.

Assume both complexes were turn-key and needed no additional capital to generate market rents, both complexes were operating exceptionally at managing expenses, what then could cause the wild variance in cap rates and the resulting market value?

Pack your .45 in your holster and we'd have the wild west all over again.

Mortar to make up the space between the curved wall and the straight metal.I talked to a structural engineer who thought it would work but was concerned about the building department signing off on it.I know the right way is to support the structure and rebuild the foundation and wall but right now property values don't justify that fix.It's probably just a wild idea but if someone has used it or seen it used any insight would be great.

Given that 90% of agents do not make it a year in the business and that many buyers are newbies or rusty sellers it's like the wild west.If you have bought tons of property before and feel that it helps you with the sellers agent to push an offer then it's your choice.