Additionally, Minkow made $50,000 from shorting Herbalife stock.[31] He continued to profit from his short sales position due to sharp decreases in the reported company's stock price immediately after releasing a new report.[17]On 20 February 2007, Minkow distributed a 500-page report to officials at the SEC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), accusing USANA of operating an illegal pyramid scheme.[32][33] On the day Minkow's report was released, USANA's shares had traded at $61.19 but by August the share price had tumbled to less than $35.[32][34] Minkow later acknowledged that he was shorting USANA's shares, hoping to profit from a drop in the stock price.[35]USANA filed lawsuits against Minkow, accusing him of stock manipulation and defamation.

Do you see the concession amount increasing or decreasing soon? 

Bonus Depreciation is in its scheduled phase down which started in 2023, where the percentage you could take of the Bonus Depreciation decreased to 80%, and has been decreasing 20% ever since, currently at 40% in 2025.

We are however seeing rate stabilization and even some rate decreases announced for Q4'2025.

A 20+% rent decrease is massive relative to the rest of the country.  

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Commercial loans have not started to decrease.  

.$6,000 for strategizing supposing you have a monthly 30 minute phone call is $500 an hour.If the cost is $10,000, and your tax rate is 35%, they would have to decrease your taxable income by atleast $30,000 for the cost to justify the cost. 

Here are some key highlights from the report, which compares September 2025 with September 2024:The median sales price in the City of Austin decreased 6% to $550,000, while the greater Austin metro declined 1.8% to $420,000, reflecting mild year-over-year softening after a long stretch of stability.Closed sales increased 16.6% in Austin to 837 transactions, and rose 6.7% across the metro to 2,416.

And the biggest problem is, most, the vast majority, the tokens of exchange there getting for their work is not increasing at same rate that tokens value of exchange is decreasing.