At the risk of upsetting Mariah I have to comment on Jon's comment about "promoting to Facilities Manager"... the vision racing through my mind was the efficiency with which most poorly performing individuals in government are promoted to a position where they can't do any damage.Mariah, make the hard decision, get it over with, suffer any consequences and then continue building your business.

ID=289874 While again, I have no idea what happened (and don't want to argue speculation, as I have a feeling people here would be surprised by my opinions on this), I'm always skeptical when a government has to censor/doctor/manipulate evidence that it releases, regardless of whether I support that government or not...

Any information beyond the number of people is government snooping.

So your "equity" to the lender will be governed by what you purchase it for.Equity is in the eye of the beholder and banks don't value security interest that is obtained by subtracting the purchase price from the appraised value.

Unless our government has started making and selling drugs, this is impossible.

Or more appropriately, maybe the socialist government in Oregon or Kaleefornia (wherever this happened) should have known ahead of time.

Using a sign to advertise an open-house is usually governed by local policy.

Say the government needs the property for a highway, sewer line or whatever.

At the risk of this turning into a political diatribe I also wanted to point out that the government can change the depreciation expense laws on buildings in the future as well.

Areas with economics of living like this indicate local governance that, for lack of a better term, has their sh-- together.