Lots of people are in jail who were innocent following the advice of others, not really an excuse.There is the school of hard knocks, those lessons can be expensive but none should be from doing illegal activities, now you know.You'll also find that any industry will have self policing issues as those that do unethical or illegal activities placing the public or others at risk reflects on all in that industry.

Born and raised in New Orleans now living in Hammond, LA and currently working full time as a regulatory consultant in the oil & gas industry.

Be aware that decades ago heavy industry put a lot of arsenic in the air, and toxic levels are still present in the ground in some north end areas.

It's almost as if this was all orchestrated to intentionally cause the bubble and come in the back door cleaning up the mess to repeat the process churning profits.I don't know if securitized portfolios of SFDs will fly, Warren Buffet seems to think so I believe, he has a pretty good crystal ball in manipulating or seeing the interactions between market industries.

He's now sitting on a nice portfolio of apartments and industrial property.Good luck to everyone this 2014!

For permits you can fill out this form:http://www.sandiego.gov/development-services/industry/buildrecords.shtmlor for quicker response i would just head over to the development services office on 1st Ave and try talking to someone on 2nd floor where they have building records.

I have always been interested in the real estate industry specifically real estate investing & appraisals but I never took the time out to find out more about it.

There are tricks in the lending industry that most of us don't know about.

Mehran, I've been in the industry for about 10 years, so haven't worked anything I think people would consider oldschool, but you might have heard of the last game I worked on, it's called "The Last of Us".Jeff, thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try and make that meeting.

I am an industrial/commercial insulator by trade.