In my investing and home ownership experience, the largest issue is assessment value which means whether or not the property tax is a killer is a property by property basis, not a whole suburb thing.

Amazon was the largest employer in the area until they closed the distribution center and moved away 3 years ago. 

Of course, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates jumped out of the gate before even graduating college and built some of the world's largest companies.

First, if you truly want to be an entrepreneur - education should be your largest focus. 

The 3rd largest city in the country.

There are a few smart phone apps where you can sell books based on ISBN Number (there are also websites)Contact local used book storesContact a local University Library (they would be more interested if it's a collection specific to topic...as an example, the University of Denver has the largest cook book collection in the West - and they aren't a culinary school)Contact a local Public LibraryOffer to sell them all at once on eBay (local pickup required)etc.

If their house is their largest asset? 

With that, I concur to a great degree with Ben Leybovich (from prior threads) that investors typically make the largest gains through appreciation in typical 1-4 unit residential investments.  

After processing, you'll need to export to JPG, but you need that RAW data to pull down excessive highlights or pull up the shadows.My advice is to always use RAW and to use the largest file size that the camera can produce.4.

Like ordering a special Granite from Italy type thing.As mentioned above in the new construction bizz we are a small player the last 5 to 6 years at 20 to 35 homes a year.. that lands us though in the top 30 in Oregon.. the largest in our market DR HOrton builds 400 a year.. we are land squeezed big time in Oregon.. its not like other areas were land can be bought and large production building can occur a big subdivision is like our 90 unit one.. even though new construction builds well over 5k homes a year in the market its spread between a large amount of mom and pop 2 to 5 homes a years type of guys.. between Horton Lennar and 3 or 4 regionals they take up about 40% of the new build volume the rest is us little guys. we build all in for anywhere from 100 a foot to 130 a foot.. in Charleston where I am building in the historic district those 2 million dollar homes are 2500 sq ft.. lots are 500 to 600k  and it cost about 300 a foot to build to the BAR architectural standards. its can cost 75k just in architect fees to get plans approved.. whereas in Oregon I buy semi stock plans for under 2k a house.. but our building permits are 30 to 50k per house.. in Charleston building permits are 5k  so it kind of all averages out.. but so far so good.. and this does not include our fix and flip division and turnkey fundings between those two we do easy 100 to 150 a year of those in 11 markets.