Looks like there might be a bit of confusion there in the office.The post seems to suggest everybody should come and it should be huge.Now its - please don't come because there's a limit of 150.I'm thinking brandon just wanted to get BP to splurge on as much alcohol as possible.

LaCrosse, Stevens Point, and Appleton are good moderate sized to look at it.  

A 5% no hassle, moderately safe securities yield should be easy to average. 

One of the major driving factors in my motivation for real estate investing and development was my grandfather, an architect and developer who had built a substantial commercial real estate portfolio in Seattle in the 80's and 90's coming from a tough, poor upbringing and an abusive alcoholic father that was quite an accomplishment. 

I filed a formal complaint and received a moderately sincere apology from upper management. 

The mindset on that (aside from the challenges finding the right deals with the clock ticking on the 45 day 1031 period) was that a long term buy and hold and moderate leverage would meet most of our cash flow goals without going too risky with too little time to do it carefully  -- and with the limited deals available to us at that exact moment. 

And while prices may start to flatten in the rest of the country, the Midwest is getting more attention from investors, families and businesses because of lower prices, but also because we have plenty of fresh water, moderate summers, no fires and no hurricanes.

. ;-)Since this is a question I assume others will have as well, I'll answer...I don't get to spend as much time on the site as I used to  -- and moderators are asked to spend certain minimums on the site -- so I relinquished many of my moderator duties several months ago. 

Thanks Drew- thankfully the moderator got back to my message earlier today and said everything about it is great and apologized for the error. 

At that point you would be farther ahead selling and parking your cash in a moderately conservative mutual fund to generate a higher return.Ideally you would want all properties 100% financed and having positive cash flow.