They need to bulldoze half the city, and offer the land for free and tax free to anyone who wants to build a factory, warehouse, distribution center or other job creator.

Factory you ongoing operation costs into your decision and determine the length of your payback on the $1100 difference.  

You make Milwaukee sound like the inside of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory

For example, if you bought in a small city where 90% of the population works at a nearby Toyota assembly factory, using your logic, you better factor in some really worst case scenarios just in case the factory shut down, because your vacancy will go from whatever it was when you bought to 100% - overnight.

And the most important factor is that with commercial lenders will often only go up to 50% financing for the exact risk factors I just mentioned.

Buying land in Romania is a good thing for several reasons.1.Is cheap land and it will grow as price with Romania beeing a member in U.E.2.Is a very nice country with both mountain and sea areas.3.For business like factories or storeware cause the workers are cheap as price(salary).4.Taxes are low.For evreybody who wants to invest in Romania i wait you to contact me on my mail or my messenger.I am a land broker working for a imobiliar agency.

A shift from industrial or factories to offices.John Corey

I've been in construction half of my life but now work in a factory and am looking to get out of there.

I'm willing to wait.Another factor, I do not show properties while occupied (unless the tenant is breaking their lease, and has authorized me to show), in fact, I rarely will show a unit that is NOT in move-in condition.

Some communities are really nice but with factories closing the prices are flat to falling.