If I invested in an area where the Housing Authority was not a good community player, it would make a difference.

We are currently finishing renovation on the home we live in, and I have extensive experience with remodeling, renovations and landscaping.My wife Tammy is a legal asst in a worldwide law firm, and I work as a Emergency Room nurse. 

Try VLC player for the videos, reformat the file through the player.

I however bought a 2013 Ford Fiesta in 2013. it was like $13K brand new, but its manual transmission, manual windows, no CD player, no alarm, no automatic locks etc.

Also there are fewer players who will finance hotels than multi-family buildings.

I'd suggest networking with the players in your market.  

I just started using Find Motivated Sellers from Real Estate World Wide (Kent Clothier).

For this purchase, I may use an international bank.Do you know of any good sites that summarize the overall health of individual banks worldwide?

I am very liquid but I am a professional poker player which makes getting a loan tricky since they consider me 100% commission based.

Downtown major players are Quicken Loans, Blue Cross, GM, DTE, Ally they basically have pumped up their campuses/work spaces.In Midtown, Wayne State decided in the late 90s to start building student housing.