“An armed society is a polite society. . .”— Robert Heinlein’sBest regards,

The weaker society grows, the smarter I look and the more people available to pay my mortgages!

We like the Arbor Day foundation and Humane Society.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

To be honest most folks spend too much time thinking market and then they miss on the stuff below, which is what really matters in a macro sense.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

I work in urban planning and have been thinking a lot about the ripple effects of the new waterfront development in Vancouver, so we opted to focus our search there. 

In fact, I just found a pre-forclosure home on the Historical Society in Tualatin that may be a shot for good returns on a flip or even a cash-flowing property.

People who still buy in Tulum today are hoping that Tulum will become another Playa del Carmen but that is very unlikely to happen for several reasons, the main ones being:1) Unlike in Playa del Carmen, it's impossible to buy a property close to the beach and certainly not at a decent price;2) Given Tulum's current and upcoming urban planning, it'll never have anything close to the 5th Avenue that made Playa del Carmen world famous;3) There is hardly any land still available for development in the area where visitors want to be in Playa del Carmen.

My question: does anyone know of programs with The Department of Housing and Urban Development, the City of Los Angeles, or any other programs that assist landlords in bringing older properties to modern standards?

A population that will be responsive to government programs (aka vote buying), and to create a society that is not cohesive.