Certainly, most people in this country lost a lot during that time, but among the "average Joe," there were fewer capital assets owned and therefore less of a proportionate drop (though if your sole asset was your primary residence, you probably lost a lot as well).Then, during the period from 2009-2012, if you were rich, you likely had some opportunities that were pretty unique in an historical sense -- real estate was as discounted as its ever been, taxes were low, fear was rampant, government policy favored them, etc.

The engagements rates for video are among the highest compared to a picture ad.

Be honest and rate yourself from 1-10... if you're a 10 in marketing but a 4 in sales, instead of losing deals and higher spreads to "learn the ropes", you can max out on what you're good at, bring that value to the table and find a 10 in sales.This goes with everything among the business...We realized we sucked at initial calls so instead of getting better, we focused on hiring the best at initial calls, and this was one of our best hires. we went from 10 deals/month to 20 deals/ month almost by the next month after the hire.We did this again on the title side, and it freed up our work load to almost half it's size.Moral of the story provide value with what you are good at, value exchange and partner with someone, or hire people to fill the spots you aren't optimal in.Doing so allowed me to create a virtual wholesale system in other cities (right now we are looking for the best wholesalers in San Antonio to expand to also) by providing my value: prescreened high quality leads, to good wholesalers... we split 50/50 they get leads ready to sign, I take on the marketing and screening, they create the bigger spread than I could, I cover marketing costs, they get 50% equity split on leads that were free to them... that's a win-win-win... allowing us to expand to as many deals/month the experienced wholesaler can handle.

If you purchase the property and it continues to not be zoned properly and utilities not separated properly, I'm guessing you'll continuously be dealing with issues and disagreements among the tenants.

That means the court is asked to divide the property equally among the heirs. 

Here in Ontario thanks to government screw ups we have among the highest electric rates in North America.

Pursue the one deal that stands out to you among the rest.

I think that option 2 is much harder to manage; you will be chasing 3 separate payments per month instead of 1, and also there is high potential for friction among the roommates.

We used a commercial bank loan with a small local bank that we love and split the cash-to-close amount among the partners.

Our goal is to be among the largest and most well respected real estate investment and development firms in the state.