For various reasons, many lawyers --- even those with above average knowledge about taxes --- often decline to seek tax-law coverage.

I went to city data's website and (going from memory here) found that the RE values have been flat to declining over the last 15-20 years.  

Also due to the rent not going up, landlords do less maintenance and the quality of rentals decline.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but Cleveland has had a almost a 20% population decline since 2000. 

When faced with the request from a patient, few doctors will decline to do it....to them its a harmless request and there will be higher ramifications for saying NO, then just saying YES.

With BP selling I’d expect more houses of your size to enter the VRBO market if prices start to decline.

However, Interactive Brokers has a very popular margin feature with very competitive interest rates.Be careful when applying leverage to investment portfolios, because if the value of the account declines below a certain level, there will be a margin call, meaning that you will need to pony up cash to prevent the broker from selling your holdings. 

just put empty calories / more crap through your body holes, and literally into the toilet.

Rents at $1,500 and an income of $3,800 may be fine too as they can probably survive on $2,300. ...My real life counter-example: rent $1300, combined income for the couple a bit over $4000 per month - and they were declined!

I was just referring to what he said in the podcast about insurance companies declining to cover you in the event of a lawsuit.