When I buy something, it needs to impact my income statement in a positive way.

My perspective, from the development side of the business, is that design is at its best when it is used to solve problems that come with developing any type of property—in planning, construction, environmental, marketing, leasing, etc.

For an older property that might have environmental issues, you are looking at north of $20 a foot.

If you're making $50K a year and own a few properties, it can have an immediate impact because you can take the special passive loss allowance and offset some of your ordinary income.

Cost reduction should be done in such a way as not to produce a serious threat to human exisitence by not paying a hoot to effective environmental hazard reduction techniques.

We all know having a broker's license is not sufficent... and because of the impact, screening the PM is more important than screening tenants.

The area, size/value of the property, and coverage can each have a major impact on the premium.

Blast and move to the side quickly to avoid a tackle, then run run runIf I were shot, I think some instant incapacitation would result from the psychological impact of, holy $^&$ I've been shot, am I going to die?

I was saying that a significant difference in taxes seems to have a huge impact on NOI and one should take that into account instead of assuming everything will always even out.Regarding your example, I think I have a better way of doing it.

I have significant assets to protect, so all it would take is just one of those people who does happen to be smart enough to try to get to my assets and it could significantly impact my quality of life.