You'll learn a tremendous amount here on BP.

I personally love the podcasts, but the forums are a tremendous resource with real people.Perhaps you can state where you're from - this way, investors who have that location (city, state for example) will get a notification of your post and might be able to respond.

Not sure how someone with tremendous net worth goes bankrupt just because assets aren't producing income.

Trying to do each project with separate crews would create a tremendous amount of management overhead, not to mention the difficult of finding several different contractors in each trade that I wanted to work with -- it just wouldn't be feasible.Add in the monetary benefits of using contractors serially on projects, and I really couldn't imagine doing it any other way.But again, that's just my experience/preference...I know others who prefer to have multiple crews, even for a small number of projects.

I would be focused on ensuring the numbers work in the current market with no expectation of tremendous appreciation - but again, that isn't my area of focus and I will be investing more conservatively, in general. 

The city is growing tremendously and has around a dozen colleges in the city itself.

BP has a tremendous amount of information to help you, but it is only available if you seek it out.

The space is tremendous compared to a similarly priced house in NYC.  

Tremendous resource and best of all the podcasts are free!!! 

You're doing a great job and have made this site is a tremendously valuable resource for investors!