You guys are being too kind by calling your "historical" districts... historical.Based on most of the idiocy I have seen come out of these organizations (they all remind of sad people who are powerless in every other part of their life) I affectionately refer to the as "hysterical" societies.Eddie...

Nevertheless, their prices continuously climb, and the securities become the top-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses who collect enormous fees on their sales, pay extravagant bonuses to their sales force, and who in turn purchase exotic sports cars and multimillion dollar condominiums.

One of the bigger organizations that is promoting mixed-use is the International Council of Shopping Centers (icsc.org).

I especially like that allows you to setup groups, so you can organize the feeds you get.

Two family owned organizations that are near and dear to my heart.1)The Dodgers2) In-n-OutFollow these two empires, and you'll do just fine in RE investing!!!

‘Guru’ isn’t as commonly used and has more or less been bastardized by some unscrupulous marketers.In a perfect world I would say the difference between Gurus and Experts would be that Gurus aren’t only experts but they take the extra steps to take their systems, methods, and experience and form a course to instill the investor ability in others in a more comprehensive and organized fashion.It’s the nature of profit and opportunity that brings out the bad apples who taint the well and it makes it a little harder to separate the good gurus from pseudo-gurus so renowned experts have to market in different ways (if they know what’s good for them) to sidestep that image.

But, it's a cool idea.....Still, IMO, I'd put functions that did not require natural light in the basement, maybe like the bar, an art gallery uses artificial light, sports shops, list is endless, anyway it can be retail, first floor is your anchor store or activity, or residential and the top floor upscale apartment/condos, keeping with the flavor of the area.

There is a certain organization who is doing this which I decline mention.

Managing 25 rentals takes VERY LITTLE TIME if you're organized.

Chicago might enjoy trying out freedom and Austin might enjoy what it's like to have some decent sports teams. 4.