If you were to go to a car race to run your car and they said no Corvettes and you wanted to race yours; do you think if you took the body off and put a stretched fiberglass Porsche body on it that you should be allowed to run it?

Are these repairs that will impact the unit availability or are they cosmetic?

What impact might rising interest rates have on your portfolio?  

Hasn't broken ground yet but will definitely have an impact.

I really appreciate your insights and obviously I have underestimated the impact to a large degree. 

What are thoughts on the impact of this New York Judge's ruling last week?

My general rule of thumb on major foundation work:If the work is visibly obvious to the buyer, it will impact your ability to sell at market price.

Although I or you may not agree with him about some or maybe everything he writes he does raise some interesting points.http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/why-i-am-never-going-to-own-a-home-again/But what's the impact on people looking to own houses for investment purposes?

I could probably list out skills that I have, except they pertain mostly to repairing the body on cars.

These are significant investments that in all likelihood will have a meaningful impact on the buyers income, wealth and future.