Then it tanked back to where I bought in, then up ticked above that mark I bought at.

Watching the local news last night, with the lotto up just under $1B, someone said "Your odds of winning the big one were about as good as being attacked by a shark in Iowa".

The planning commission said we wouldn't pass a perc test for a septic tank or be able to find water drilling a well because others had failed or be able to get utilities up that canyon or be able to cut a driveway through that cliff.

I hauled wood for the stove, hauled snow to melt fir water, dug outhouses every few years, changed the propane tanks as needed so we could have lights.

But last time I did that, my credit tanked like 50 points because of how they ran it.

That said, there's a right way to handle it and a wrong way to handle it, and coming off as a loan shark with bat in hand is the wrong way.

Like a 100-car train smashing into the side of a mountain, the economy has tanked in such a severe way that a lot of these jobs that were lost will not come back online for several years to come.

It sucks when it's someone you know and love, but real easy for most people to to take in stride when its just statistical numbers that are people you don't know/love.Only time will tell if tanking our economy in the name of quarantining is better than having let the virus run its course unimpeded.

Then look up the following criteria:Unemployment ratesPopulation growthAge range population changes Median rent ratesVacancy ratesPercentage of job sectors (says be careful in areas that have one dominant sector +25% bc if that sector tanks it will most likely have a neg impact on rents)Top employers (same as above)The you take that data and observe the trend over the last 5 years to try and get a good grasp on how that area is trending.

Equity is only there if the value doesn't tank.