California had two of the biggest exporting industries in the country - Silicone Valley & Hollywood.Silicone valley still producing ideas but no product (They all went west...)Hollywood is battling Canada, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.

Rentals are just like slot machines.

When it is free or cheap, they will allow you to incur ridiculous time and expense on their part and never produce anything.This results in personal time with family, professional time doing deals and inordinate amounts of money, totally wasted.

The US GDP is about $14 trillion, so we would need to tax and invest everything produced in the US for the next 40 years just for Medicare.

I think that digger deeper into the details would produce a more secure position to go from.

I am confident that I can produce something better.

Produce of Canada!!

Auctions can produce great deals for investor buyers but it all depends on your area and market.

That is, offer your slot to someone else?

While owning free and clear offers safetly in not having a mortgage payment, you have a lot of cash tied up in the walls which only produce the cash flow return and expose you to lawsuits due to your equity position.