If you find one who won't make a NOO loan, I'm sure there would be someone else willing to take your money :) (especially in this economic climate!)

More and more retail chains, restaurants are announcing bankruptcy.

And one thing for owners to remember - a 4 star review for anything else in life (restaurants, movies) is pretty good, it's just not good for Airbnb or VRBO. 

I'm sure you'll get a lot of "college doesn't matter" comments on here but if you're already doing it, I'd suggest either emphasis of or combination of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Economics.

Of course if we have a long economic downturn, prices could fall, but that's not what we've been experiencing so far this year.

Not only are they improving the neighborhoods but the surrounding areas such as your restaurants, highways, expanding streets, and all-around cleaning up the area.

We hired Ellen for our restaurant design for Grub but they do a lot of residential as well.  

It is a shock to the system and completely skews the economics of the town.

Dollar goes down, imported goods get more expensive, inflation rises.Admittedly, there are MANY other factors at play this year (insecurity In, well, everything due to perceived economic risk) so my example is extremely simplistic.

While it's generally one step up the capital structure from rents and mortgage payments, they aren't seeing mass non-performance either:This top-line performance is supported by strong fundamentals, with a number of our stabilized properties actually experiencing positive rent growth in spite of the larger economic contraction.We attribute this success primarily to having maintained a disciplined value investment approach, led by our most active strategy of owning and lending to affordable apartment communities in growing cities throughout the Sunbelt.