Quality or grade does not matter.

He consumes ALOT of Apple products (iTunes, movies, etc.)

BiggerPockets has grown to become one of the most respected online real estate destinations for quality news, discussion, networking, commentary, how-to's, and much more.

Think of all the small businesses that have contracts where they've already provided the service or product and now will go unpaid or suffer delayed payment until the BK is resolved.

Look to the types of loans made, 5 and 7 year fixed that roll over to adjustable, those may not adjust until 2015, so it could be too that the upturn is simply the slowing of some loan product maturing.

Property Wars looks like it is produced by the same production company as Storage Wars (the storage locker auction show).

Is there much difficulty to find quality tennants?

I've also seen a product that goes on over tile and looks like granite, some type of granite conversion.

I explain that I'm an investor, and that if they can't provide very competitive price (along with quality work), they shouldn't waste their time bidding the job.

Obviously it depends on the type of project you would be developing, location, quality, etc.