The home does look impressive from that picture, but as you mention it looks a lot like a "Real World" (the TV show) house or a playboy mansion, than a traditional home.

., to Absentee Owners, etc.)3) Outdoor advertising (billboards, bandit signs, car wraps)4) TV advertising (can be very targeted now, and cost effective)For free, people post on Craigslist and as a result it's kind of a wasteland.  

If the alternative is sitting at home and watching TV, you mine as well do it. 

It is currently the 13 inch TV.

Only channel that gets put on our TV too is HGTVThe conundrum we are facing is paying a chunk of cash to join a coaching program with Keyspire.

The shows on tv don't give all the details and can make them sound like great $$ makers, often times leaving out details like closing cost fees, capital gains tax, etc.

Without easements for sewer, water, gas, electric, phone lines, cable TV, fiber optic, the subdivisions would be unlivable by today's standards.

I suspect it will pass, because the TV is full of ads about making "the wealthy pay their fair share", and all but coming out and claiming that corporations only pay $10 a year in taxes (completely untrue).The net result will be, of course, that they put small businesses out of business, and the larger corporations will simply move out of state.This certainly affects the commercial real estate investor, because fewer small businesses means fewer tenants for the commercial buildings.Oregon tends to be pretty conservative, so if we are doing it, more states will be doing it.Just a heads up.

Stuff like that...It would probably be better if you didn't just leave them at a REIA meeting, but instead handed them to people who asked for one.And now, my own disclosure...not an attorney, don't play one on TV, my $0.02 (overvalued), YMMV, etc.

Waiting to buy a TV when you can pay cash.