We also make sure to recommend a forward tilt and pull out tv holder, it makes the height view to be adjusted. 

The contracts are so heavily tilted in favor of the sellers that you are essentially hoping they choose to fulfil their end and have no comeback if they don't.

Choose wisely and you'll tilt the odds in your favor. 

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

, I'll partially agree with their take on it and hope the investment activity tilts more toward locals and away from the block of long-distance investors who really aren't a net positive for the city I love.

Tilting at windmills will not help you.

Couple that with the fact that the population of the United States as a whole has more then tripled over the past 100 years and it is easy to see that the balance between supply and demand have been tilting for a long time, and probably will for a long time. 

This may help tilt the overall value in your favor a bit.

Why not "roll the dice" on a market with highly stochastic appreciation where the mean is NOT zero (but more like 6%-8%), then further tilt the odds in your favor by forcing some appreciation and still getting your long term cash flow from rent increases while not worrying about having to try to dance in and out of investments at the perfect timing via 1031 exchange and eating transaction costs?

However, as water gets between the wythes of brick and freezes, walls will start to bulge, tilt or shift.We have one such building at the moment where the previous owner underpinned the original brick foundation and poured a concrete wall on the inside of the brick walls which were in the worst shape.