No more 12 hr. shifts for him even if he could find a job. 

Shifting your efforts to finding principals with big problems that either they cannot solve or will trade equity for someone else to solve is where you'll make real money.

While that might shift, it won't shift in 2-3 years. 3) Everyone wants to be near downtown and there is a very limited supply of suitable property and none of it is cheap.

Imagine how much more awkward Thanksgiving and Christmas will be when conversation shifts from "mmm great food" or "insert sports team here" to "How bout that money you owe me?"

I am a Paramedic and work 24 hour shifts, so I can't answer if I am on a call at work, and I put my phone on, "Do not disturb" mode when doing any daytime sleeping, (pretty much only the wife and my immediate work supervisor get through).

Double shift if needed, give one "contingency day" a week.

You can get residential and commercial from your building regs dept for permits.The city finance departments issue business licenses so you can get how many and how many new ones.You can find the increase in school aged kids from the public schools and the break down in districts will show population shifts of families.You can goggle for the areas MSA data (metropolitian statisical area) which should be showing HUD rent levels or from the local public housing authority broken down per bedroom.Call the unemployment office and ask for thier data, past numbers and present will show trends for local employment.Another source for information is the areas Builder's Association as they should know trends as to new homes and improvements.

A full day is not measured in daylight hours or an 8 hour shift!

If there is a market shift towards home ownership vs renting then rental rates will decrease thereby reducing the value of Multi properties.

It was interesting with the phone calls I took, as I noticed not too many people leave messages (I work 3rd shift so it was hard to be at the phone all day long) the ones that do, I would call back and most the time I would have to leave a message and if they called back or not it was hit or miss.