The market in Dayton is still loaded with properties in need of repair but the economy seems to be improving.

I know how people will say most restaurants will fail, but not for great operators.

Standard pools are about 9' deep at about a fourth of the pool, tapered, transistion up to 3' deep at about a third, I'd guess and average depth of 6', so about 280 yards or 5 dumps @ $150 a load delivered here for fill, $750.

I co-founded a non-profit and my friends have a successful business that have been operating along the lines of a B-corp (North Carolina does not recognize B-corps although there was legislation in the senate last I heard).

I know a lot of us here think about what it will be like expanding the operations to lots of employees and having to deal with all the management issues that come up...it's nice to hear from someone who's doing it on a large scale (very large scale actually, compared to most in this business).

For financial operations, there are five key ones.

If you keep the $ invested in an index fund or a no load mutual fund you will gain about a 8% annualized return.

Your goal as an investor is to protect your money. you need to operate on LTV (loan to value) at most of 70% of the purchase price.

Learning to operate under significant pressure, crunching numbers, how to effectively manage time and dealing with very angry people.

., in a real property trade or business) if:1) more than one-half of the personal services you provided during the year were performed in a real property trade or business in which you materially participated; AND2) the number of hours in which you materially participated in this real property trade or business was more than 750 hours; AND3) you must materially participate in each rental real estate activity unless you filed an election to group all rental real estate activities as one (and materially participate in that activity).A "real property trade or business" means any real property development, redevelopment, construction, reconstruction, acquisition, conversion, or rental operation, management, leasing, or brokerage trade or business.Personal services performed as an employee are not treated as being performed in a real property trade or business unless you are a more than 5% owner of the trade or business.For joint return purposes, the eligibility requirements are considered met if either you or your spouse separately satisfy the requirements.