At $200K or more, then you start seeing some return on the effort to sustain a 401(k) and eliminate UBIT, but it is still only a few hundred dollars a year. 

The only thing we didn't see was the severity of the bust, but we knew it was coming, it was simple math, between the stock being built, % of non-resident buy's, and the lending going to those without true qualifications and sustainability, but..... we just kept building em as long as we could.

I will be resigning from my full time job before Labor Day 2015 and I am looking forward to the challenge of building my own business and creating sustainable wealth through real estate investing.

These items are the most sustainable in a recession. 

You created a self sustaining asset that produces.

I have this in cash and have no clue how to allocate it into the analysis...This would be my first investment property.I’m in the construction business and will use my own crews for all rehab except for electrical.As for the area, it has two large projects that are ongoing and have an expected project lifespan of 10 years for construction with expectation that both will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.

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When cold enough I've seen interior pipes split within a matter of a couple hours of a heating system failure.I'm veering a little off track now but when you live in a climate that sustains -20F for weeks on end you get pretty well versed in the freeze threshold of a lot of different materials.This toilet took longer than a couple hours to finally give up but it's pretty good example of the kind of damage that can result.

I currently own a retail business that is self sustained and have since opened a construction business to help me along the way with this real estate venture.

Take a good look at what you own and decide if the market did go down, is it sustainable.