The fact is that too many small business owners are really doing nothing more than creating jobs for themselves; they are not creating anything of true economic value.By that I mean let's say someone invests $400,000 in a donut shop and their target return is 10% on their capital.

Do you always want to work for a big shop or do you want to own the shop?

.$3000 should be plenty...if you get bids for more than that shop around...

I'll add a couple of examples I found helpful, the first chapter is called The Broken Window. when a rock is thrown through a window, some people go on and on how this is wonderful, this creates work for someone to fix the window, but in reality, if the window hadn't been broken the owner of the shop would have bought a new suit instead, and created work for a tailor, and had both a new suit and a window, not just a window. but no one ever saw the suit because it never came into existence because the owner of the shop had to use his limited resources to buy a window. but everyone can see the window and the job "created" by it so they are fooled into thinking a job was created and a window was brought into existence and that this was productive.the second chapter, creating jobs for the sake of job creation is really just moving jobs around, and usually the market not the government can best decide what people actually want and need.

Sorry for the rant, but at some point someone needs to put these dirt bags out of business.

In order to fully take advantage of this, shop around.

We're in escrow on a nice one built in 1997 in a great rental neighborhood (jobs, shopping, commuting, ethnically diverse) in Indianapolis

I mean they could have brought brown bag lunches too, but I don't think anyone would have bought it.

Your local hardware shop should be able to do it.

That will happen when:a) people around the world lose faith in the currency b) there is another alternative that is perceived as saferFor more on the German inflation that was mentioned above see:http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2008/09/29/a-bag-of-money-to-buy-a-loaf-of-bread/ :cool: