I just wrote an astronomical check to the King County Treasury.

If your insurance says it's OK, they say that because they understand the risk is so astronomically low that they're willing to accept it.

Staff is getting difficult to find, your expenses can be astronomical, and your liability is through the roof. 

But, they tend to have a major component, typically a circuit board or motor fail within the first 2 years; and on those models the replacements parts are sometimes astronomically priced relative the purchase price of the appliance.I've seen a pretty large uptick in the cost of basic appliances, in recent years and also in the quality of the materials and components.

The ease with which you can get to your cash in the later case, will be much more bearable, and the numbers not astronomically different given that a loan from a hard money lender will be interest only.  

They used the astronomical appreciation they made over the years in the Bay Area to scale their portfolios and rental income.So if I were in your position that’s what I would do.

I’m looking for a mountain area where the cost of entry is not astronomical, where I can also have it serve as a vacation home.

We hate living here and desperately want to move out to our own place but the prices here in NY are astronomical. 

The problem was that the acquisition cost for the part of the country I'd build in was astronomical.

Unless your rental rates are just astronomical I see Texas as the winner if for no other reason than the stability of the market.