Some of their worst practices were the "company stores" and housing costs that were usurious, while selling the crops and pocketing much of the proceeds before the sharing. 

Lastly, try social media.

I wrote a letter to the company stating all of the reasons I wanted my money back (3 pages of reasons), a list of the items broken down and a statement saying I would contact all sorts of media outlets and the Massachusetts and Utah state attorney general's office.

If the store won't send female drivers to an area after dark, it's probably not a prime real estate market! 

Even if there are stores here that carry what you want, that doesn’t mean that they’ll have it in stock on a given day.Hawaii is paradise on earth, but it’s not heaven.There is still traffic and crime, and there are still some rude people in Hawaii like anywhere else.

But we also found some gems like a vinyl record collection that I ended up selling to a store.

I go to a store like Hobby lobby and buy few neutral pieces to go on the wall in the living room and dining room.

Get a copy of Black's Law Dictionary, it won't make you a lawyer but at least you can understand terms and what phrases mean.Anyone in any business needs to breeze through a Business Law text book, sorry don't have a specific book for you, but any college book store will have it for Business Law 101. 

Yeah I believe I was on the dominican side because most of the stores and people walking around were hispanic including the cocaine entrepreneur.

So, for someone with a lot of money in a country where the currency is volatile, they may consider "storing" money in SF real estate a better idea that possibly losing 40% this year from fluctuations (SF is one of the most well known cities in the world and draws a lot of international interest).Secondly, for those doing this locally, you also have to remember that the very poor condition home that was rehabbed could easily be worth a few hundred thousand dollars more now depending on where it is.