It’s an industry generally terrible about adopting innovation because many working that industry are still seeing it as a competition to their day-day versus replacing low skill tasks and personnel to focus in higher value activities critical in the people era.

The market is bad and the smog is terrible

I never really made terrible decisions but also didn’t have anyone in my life who understood finances well enough to show me how to overcome the financial challenges I was faced with.

I was able to get a different quote for about 1/3 of the price... so I passed on the generous offer.Now, as a renter I have one and it's been absolute terrible.

Then they whisper to the buyers what a terrible house it was, the heating system doesn't work, and they plan to call it into code enforcement about other violations.

Now I am not saying the actual workmanship is terrible. 

Both options are terrible as far as I'm concerned.Just some food for thought.Oren

Or as a wise investing friend of mine once said, "You can't eat a Cap Rate"...meaning that even though a Cap Rate might be very good, cash flow might be terrible, depending on how the deal is structured. 

I went through a 1031 w/ TERRIBLE lender, like were talking so bad they cut me a check at the end of it bad.

Terrible idea?