A good office that can help you motivate you and train you to drum up new business is worth it's weight in gold.

The only reason I know of anyone investing in the stock market, commodities, gold or silver or anything else is to benefit from said investing.  

Ignore the bravado you hear, work with good locations and basics and success WILL follow.Those Craftman's are real gems and can be a gold mine *IF* you can control the expenses.Use your last efforts as a cost estimator for the next one - - after all, that was reality and no bravado. 

I'm not quite to the point of making gold, rations (and ammo) a major part of my investment strategy.Alcohol and cigarettes are also good trade commodities if the currency becomes worthless.

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Browse through the forums, they are gold mines.

The exceptions are historical value, intrinsic value (for example, it you built using solid gold fixtures) or some other value the building or land possesses over and above the income it generates.In terms of measuring the value of the income stream, there re lots of compliicated ways to determine that, but it all boils down to these two formulas:Net Operating Income (NOI) = Gross Income - Costs/ExpensesValue = NOI / Cap RateSome very, very, very generalized assumptions you can make for a first pass analysis are:- Costs/expenses are between 40-60% of gross income- Cap Rates are between 8-12% in many parts of the countryUsing those two very gross assumptions, and using your income number of $125K, the value of the building will likely fall somewhere between about $500K and $1M.It's unlikely -- given the info you've provided -- that it would be worth the $1.2M you'd be spending.

Those retirement benefits are worth their weight in gold.

Hopefully there's a nugget or two in there that can be helpful to you. 

Heading east, most of the popular Gold Rush/Sierra towns are a bit over 2 hours.