They are intellectually stimulating and more importantly, make us feel better about an ultimately unknowable future ;)  But in the final analysis we cannot predict the actual outcome, much less its timing.

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(whatever you are going to do, partner on a deal, be interested in earning 10% on my project, etc.) "  as this usually stimulates good conversation without you seeming too overbearing. 

After this email I need more testosterone .

Third, as other's have mentioned, I simply can't see how any investor whoever it may be would every purchase any property in St Paul after this initiative, so there goes development, including that of new or renovated affordable housing, and also of entertainment, shops, etc, which attract the affluent into the city and stimulate the economy. 

I think it is called 'testosterone'.Then, you have the normal expectations with partnerships.

People going back to work might actually help stimulate the economy IMO.

They did this to keep interest rates low to stimulate housing and the economy.

The curtailing of rental property financing is not driven by market fears, it's driven by gov't policy.The gov't is keeping rates artificially low with the intent of helping average homeowners (the idea being that "average homeowner" takes his $500/mo mortgage savings and spends at least $450 of it each month on consumer junk, maybe a new car payment, maybe eating out, whatever, thus stimulating the economy).

Slick photographs and fancy descriptions only over stimulate the imaginations for prospective tenants.