Many here greatly benefitted from that.it did reinforce the lesson that crap properties were still crap.Today the market drivers are different and underpinned by people that have grown tired of money market instabilities and lack of personal control of their futuresFOMO applies here too, but my opion is that many, both individuals and institutions have realised the housing is something needed by all AND 'THEY AIN'T MAKING ANYMORE DIRT"

You could then build a conventional reinforced concrete retaining wall fully on "your" property and backfill between the failed wall and the new wall.

Mostly the summit helped reinforce what I need to do but is hard for me to do.

@Jean Bolger I'm planning on some nice new painted shutters and trim so I appreciate the reinforcement!

Meanwhile rates have gone up even if they could refinance.7)Downward cycle repeats and reinforces itself.Curious for those that are students of history and multifamily investment class, is this the way it typically goes down when commercial RE hits a rough patch, like in the 1980s S&L crisis?

I reinforce doors and hinges with a DJ Armor product.

If your base mat foundation was properly reinforced (engineered to account for surcharge pressure from expansive soil), the rigidity of the foundation will minimize the displacement of the structure due to vertical and horizontal movement of the clay.

A longer answer would get into group psychology, about how a group reinforces self serving ideas, Collective rationalization, Stereotyped views of out-groups, etc...

I just finished a book called "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Green and he provided a good recommendation of including both positive and negative reinforcements into the ICA (independent contractor agreement). 

The wall shows definite bulging inward.The foundation wall does not appear to have any reinforcing steel embedded in it and the horizontal distress originated in a “cold-joint” that formed in the concrete during the pouring of the foundation.