But if you're in the habit of wiping food off, and using your handles to open the doors, it can last forever. 

I know my ROI is terrible on an MBA...and I probably wont stay in the corporate world forever.

The university town does not have many places for short-term rental (never enough for events in town -- during the year and especially in summer when they have a few big festivals, including a music fest), so short-term rentals are a plus there.   

Doesn’t seem like you will be staying forever.

If they haven't that may be an angle you could take.If you do not want to hold forever and want to go into something else you could possibly reduce the 10% increase every 5 years to say 8% in exchange for them signing a brand new 15 year lease.

Then about 3 months later, your attorney will notify you that your permanent visa is ready, you could come back to Panama then to get your permanent Resident Visa which is food forever or you can wait about 30 days for your attorney to apply for your Cedual ( national ID card) so you can pick up the Permanent Visa and Cedula on the same trip.As for investments... there are a lot of opportunities but you also need to be really careful. 

Getting things signed would take forever and my agent was doing double duty to get the deal done and negotiate hard when I needed to be focused on my own clients.

If you're looking in San Diego California, you will be searching forever, may not ever find one with those numbers honestly.

Another point of language some mortgage brokers like to put in is a perpetuity or TIME clause for the lender.Example instead of just getting paid on that one loan with that lender their language reads if you use that lender again you will also owe them a fee on any future deals for forever (perpetuity) or a set time like 3 years from XX date.You want to get that stuff out of there.  

move faster and get the gas company out as soon as possible since they take for ever if they need to dig the street up and get your gas line back on.