Am I showing just how green I am by being surprised at that?

I have been lurking on this awesome site for a while and finally decided to take a moment to sign up.My name is Lisa Green.

Welcome Michael Green.

Just like the game Monopoly: four small green houses = one red hotel.Apartments come in all sizes: duplex, triplex, fourplex, and just about any unit count from there.

With commercial, (I am speaking as very green layman) don't you have to sometimes "build to suit" and often wait a year or more for tenant in some economies?

Look at the Tea Party -- whether you agree with their principles or not, you should be thrilled that a group of people had the ability (and the freedom) to come together to define a set of ideologies and promote those ideologies on a national platform.One day, the Tea Party, the Green Party, the Libertarians, the Constitutionalists or some other group of like-minded folks will grow enough of a following to rival and perhaps take control from the two major parties in this country.We should embrace and encourage that, not try to quash it by saying things like, "You're throwing your vote away."

I got my first green card ever.Don

Welcome to BiggerPockets Julie Greene!

*Note: And my brother beat me to it*I've done a lot of research on this lately as I am doing a green project, so maybe I can chime in a little..A lot of your decisions depend on where the house is located and what r-value is typically recommended for that region.

Which means that until it's used for trade/bargaining, the stack of green paper or the numbers on your bank statement are not really money, they are just objects with absolutely no intrinsic value.If you look at it from that angle, money isn't made when you buy or sell...it's made when you take the currency from the sale and spend it on something else.Again, that would be the ultra literal view, assuming your definition of money has to do with value and not just objects with no intrinsic value.