In other words, the debt forced austerity measures will pale in comparison to what happens when oil is more expensive to extract from the ground, when copper, lead, aluminum, iron, etc are lower grade and deeper (higher price to extract, higher price to refine, oil is a huge component of their price), when aquifers decline (see India, OK panhandle, etc) and farming is not economic (also, oil is a huge constituent of food production via fertilizer, tillage, transportation, etc) and on and on.

Suggestions of food etc?

You will have an entire package you are selling.

My only expenses right now are food and rent the rest is covered by my employer.

If they are equity partners, I definitely suggest having the Parent LLC do a loan package for the Rental LLC so that the property is fully liened.

I mean, I expect the contractors to tell me the precedence of tasks, how long each work package will take and cost.

I am a producer of food, the basis for ships and factories, the foundation of banks.

We were able to get one package of homes prior to them hitting the MLS.

I hold that very TIPS fund, that plus metals funds (PSLV, CEF: they hold actual metals, stay away from GLD,SLV), Plus DBA (global food shortage play), plus REMX (rare earth play) are the make ups of a very defensive, diversified portfolio that holds some risk but IMHO less than equity funds which we've all witnessed in the past 2yrs.

All of the Guru's pretty much re package the same information there is only so many ways to skin a cat.