However, if you are able to use the high cost of living to your advantage, as you can as a RE investor there and other ways as well, you can turn that frown upside down ... on the financial side, the trick for me was to arrange my financial affairs such that the higher the cost of living gets, the wealthier I get, but I will still be ok and wealthy if that doesn't happy ... then my happiness is only limited by the 405 freeway (joke, not really), which I only need to use if I want to leave the 6th happiest city, which would almost always be by choice and not necessity, again by design :) So, I guess my point is that you can engineer your lifestyle for maximum happiness no matter where you live, and that is a worthy metric to optimize around, but some places are definitely easier to do that than others due to the nice things you can't change IMO.How is Alaska treating you?

Any that look good in person, I'll do the boring stuff like driving concentric circles around the address, visit multiple times of the day, on the weekend, etc.

This is coming form the ASCE design manual for concrete structures related to zones prone to earthquakes...

My speciality is creating value through design of real estate with feasibility and initial design studies.  

But, if I had $2k to spend and was starting out as an agent, I'd put $500 into design a kick-*** graphic on 99designs-dot-com and then $1500 to have my car wrapped with it.

They also have a sister company called MLA Labs that can do soils tests to aid the structural engineer in designing a proper solution for the problem.  

Housing court judges make their own laws, and security deposit requirements are designed to trip up the landlord and provide triple damages to the tenant.

andrew,  I don't like the tile design in the bathroom.  

I currently own a commercial printing and graphic design business. 4.

Especially when it comes SFH.I think that banks should pay less attention to personal DTI (Not to say discounted it completely) and concentrate more on the sustainable cash flow of the said property.