About 1500 more apartments are to be added to the downtown area in the next couple of years.Article states that some of the projects are being marketed on a national level:http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/201...

I'll jump on this today (lowering price, lining up contractor to do cosmetics) and hopefully have good news to share soon.

That's the good news.

My best guy had to recuse himself last year due to becoming, in his own words,'radioactive' while representing a guy who made national news in a very negative way.

News & World Report.

We can't just grade the lot, we have to dig it down 5', replace the soil in increments, compact it, have soils engineers on the job to test compaction, then keep doing that until it's all done.

. * yeah that's how we roll here; double digit appreciation is expected during good times. 3-5% is considered meh, flat ;)3- as mentioned above, buying marginal deals now has risks!  

Should I put a ad in the news paper (LOOKING FOR WHOLESALERS IN REAL ESTATE THAT HAVE 5 YEARS PLUS EXPERIENCE) :)Any thoughts would be very helpful

@Jay Hinrichs More renters, is good news to me, is there a downside to that?

However, that's only if you don't have a secret weapon - and in my case, that secret weapon is BiggerPockets.As soon as I heard the news, instead of panicking and wondering how I'd be filling 45 minutes, I did the following:* wished our speaker well - we all know that life sometimes happens and hopefully we can bring him on later * reached out to a BP member I had just spoken to the night beforeViola!