People should never do business without a face to face meeting, and at the least, a Skype meeting where they can visually evaluate a potential partner. 

Currently it is virtually impossible to permit a treatment plant that converts sea water to potable water because there is no viable (read permitable) means to dispose of the highly concentrated waste water.

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I'm just starting in real estate, but for the past 21 years, I've worked in research to improve substance use treatment.

I'm hoping that the legislature here (with plenty of representatives that are NOT from super-lefty urban areas)  will be willing to consider that the downsides of allowing rent control would outweigh any benefits long term,  and there are other approaches to ease homelessness and housing availability crunch that should be considered instead (encouraging more housing construction, incentivising and underwriting riskier tenant pools instead of forcing landlords to take them; reinvestment in mental health and drug treatment programs and transitional housing, working with employers to site new job centers in underdeveloped/struggling areas, etc.)I'm certain that if the state constitution is amended Seattle will implement some kind of rent control.  

That is a HNW (high Net Worth) market, and that "playground" is SAVAGE in their treatment for sub-par performance, and GRACIOUS in their reward for achievement and excelling in expectations. 

On the other hand if you hold it one year plus a day it will be eligible for capital gains treatment.3) Here is the tricky part.

So I'm focusing on durability first, but it also must be visually and functionally appealing to a tenant. 

I even lost to someone who had only a visual inspection contingency where they just walked the property themself without an inspector (crazy in any market). 

During my two trips out there, getting a rental car and driving the streets was the best way for me to get a feel for it...before going I also utilized Google Maps street view (albeit these images are mostly dated).Property prices out here (in CA) and unfavorable landlord treatment in general made considering to Indy easy.