This beautiful city in the Hill Country with the Colorado River running straight through downtown brought forth over 70,000 new residents this past year.

I just renewed the lease another year for the tenants, yes, the same ones that brought bed bugs in but I thought it would financially be cheaper than going without rent for a month and repainting and cleaning that I footed 1/2 the bill for which by CT state law they could have forced me to pay the entire bill for.

In my area there is a strong sense of loyalty among the old money so if you are brought up connected, are reasonably ambitious and smart, you have it made.The most important thing is that you are a people person.

But, then, I got to thinking more along the lines as Ryan is suggesting...which is what brought me here to ask the question in the first place.

You've brought up some good points for me to think about.

Note that the only valid concern they've brought up was the drainage issue, something that can easily be solved with a certified professional.

It's all about how you were brought up.The kids and even adults today about 80 to 90% are in jobs because they do it because they have to and want to leave as soon as possible.My first job I was 14.I wanted a Tandy computer from Radio Shack but my dad said we couldn't afford it.So being a kid walking around my subdivision there was a fruit market right across the road.I went over and talked to the owner and was hired.I walked back home and told my parents I got a job.The work was very tough but we had a bunch of fun.Didn't have a fork lift so they would back up a truck and we would unload potting soil,wheat straw,pine straw,pumpkins,watermelons,flowers,bags of rocks one by one onto the empty pallets on the ground.When the food truck came we had one manual hand truck.Being the job was considered agricultural I put in sometimes 60 hours a week and I loved the checks as a kid.I bought that Tandy computer.I remember that the salesman at Radio Shack gave me all the reasons why nothing would ever go past 512 kb.My next job years and years later was as a Kmart cashier.I loved being in the air conditioning but the other kids complained the work was too hard.I saw it as a gravy train job that was so easy compared to what I used to do.Many people of today want 100k a year jobs but do not want to put in the work.There are many low income jobs being created but that doesn't motivate people to work.If you have a kid on welfare and you go work part time then they deduct what you make off of that amount so there is no point in working many say.If you get 10 an hour but all of that goes to childcare and they tax you on the income then many just stay home.So the government can't expect to fix the system the way it is right now.There is no motivation for people to work low income jobs when they can make the same unemployed off of government programs.

An agent brought me an offer from a buyer to take that property totally as-is, with squatter, junk and auto.

3&2 1513 sf lot 19,800 $ per sf $89 SOLD for $135----adjusted price is $142Comp #33&2 1322 sf lot 6,710 $ per sf $85SOLD $135-----adjusted price is $136Comp #43&2 1574sf lot 6,270 $ per sf $74SOLD $116k-----adjusted price $117The guys that brought this to me have an auction bidding company serving realtors and investors.

You brought up a good point, saying that I should not be designing this for myself; doing what I like.