That is how we bring about change, not by telling someone to go flip burgers 30 hours a week for minimum wage because that doesn't address the challenges that are truly holding them back.

And certainly none of these answers suggest that an landlord is a fat, complacent ruler of any empire, large or small.  

Flipping burgers for a minimum wage may not be glamorous or very profitable, but your paycheck isn't (directly) dependent on how many burgers get sold.I think our higher education system is seriously messed up.

Jimmy, You have to pay closer attention to the other posts :wink: I think Jon already stated it fairly well: the 2% rule really is only applicable to being useful in a very narrow range of market rents; the $500 figure was used.

Flipping burgers is worth $8.00 an hour and 5 years later it is still worth $8.00 an hour .  

Wouldn't it be your fault for going back to that restaurant every month to order that same burger?

Its like the people who get upset their order from the Burger King drive through is wrong, when if you have realistic expectations that yeah the person at Burger King serving me food is likely not going to be as good at their job as say Bryan Voltaggio or some celebrity chef.  

@Engelo Rumora  and or I just bought a winter place in Vegas so you can come there.. and I can rent a Cirrus and we can fly the grand Canyon and or I can take you over to Catalina Island and we can have Bison burgers .. its a cool flight . straight over LA over the channel. airport is on a Plateu on top of the island super cool...

I'm glad that McDonalds didn't wholesale their burgers to Joe's on the corner when they were too busy with their first 4 restaurants, as one example.

People are slinging burgers at McDonalds for more than $4.50 per hour,,,Here in S Calif ,any legitimate contractor in any of the trades is breaking even at 175.00 to 200.00 per hour without a net profit of 8-10%That would bring us up to about $225 to 260.00 per hour in billing numbers,,,,Wanting to give you a bit of advice if you might accept it Mike,,,,I would go to several local established plumbing supply houses that sell to only licensed contractors and ask for a couple referals for some licensed plumbers maybe father and son teams who have good attitudes,have nice clean trucks ,are cordial and pay their supply house bills on time,,,you cant go wrong with these guys,these guys are serious and the run a legitimate above board business,,,These are the folks you want to invite to bid on your rehab projects.Hire them and guess what ,,if they like you and u have a "meeting of the minds" they are going to introduce and reccomend other tradesmen in different crafts of the same level of competence and reputation,,,,DD