I also graduated college with a degree in real estate, in which, the entire curriculum was geared towards commercial real estate.

When it is 100 degrees out and you have no AC NOT fun.

I once attended a corporate meeting where the guest speaker was Rudy Giuliani and in addition to being paid for the speech, the contract called for the room in which he gave the speech to be maintained at exactly a certain temperature +/- 1 degree while he's in that banquet hall. 

We started out with no money as personal property right out of my undergraduate degree.

I spent six years in the United States and have a degree in Mechanical Engineering.  

We started out with no money as personal property right out of my undergraduate degree.

I received my undergraduate degree from Texas A&M (yes I'm an Aggie) in Landscape Architecture/Community Master Planning 1979, and in 2011 went back to get my masters at The University of Texas at Arlington in Landscape Architecture/Urban Design.  

We started out with no money as personal property right out of my undergraduate degree.

I'd love to hear some more opinions on these in the Portland metro area.My family thinks I'm nuts for wanting to be a landlord, and maybe I'll learn the hard way, but from what I'm learning you can take a lot of steps to mitigate the negative side to a degree.

And, there may be the fear of contacting someone and annoying them to the degree they get reported and get a boot up their tail on the site, like soliciting assistance, never know what another is thinking much less how mods see things, having to watch what you say.