Shaker Heights is good but it can be street by street and some of the border areas could be a problem.Overall there are some great investment opportunities here but like many big cities there are pockets of both good and bad. 

You don't get the interaction of a class situation but that's probably not a bad thing... there is always that one student that throws off the conversation in directions that no one really cares about and in an interactive class when that one student takes the instructor off course, it's usually at the detriment to the material you need to learn.

Hey @John Berger, that's not a bad spot to be in!

The decision comes down to a choice of paying the tax today in present dollars or paying the present value of the future tax 30 years from now.Just as the name implies, there are two parts to a monetized installment sale: an installment sale and a monetization process.

Issues that they should have never allowed to happen in the first place. 9 times in 10 when a landlord gets a bad tenant or a poor fitting tenant it is the landlords own fault for not screening them out.Fear of placing your business interests ahead of applicants interests always turns out bad for the landlord.

Walls had extensive nail damage/patching, walls were in bad need of painting despite providing paint to tenant multiple times during tenancy.

All of these things are experiences to me, both good and bad, desirable and undesirable, but experiences nonetheless.

I have seen how ...patchy... the areas can be when you can have good and bad streets next to each other which has been a bit interesting. 

Just across the Hudson in Jersey City it's not nearly as bad.

The IRS has some bad news for you...