Yes, an asteroid would be a major disruption

The question is how much time do you want to put in and disrupt your life for the anticipated return??

Any effort to modernize and make {somewhat} energy efficient would involve disrupting/destroying a portion of the woodwork, mouldings and trompe l'oeil.  

I believe that some women fear the disruption of the "nest building" process so much that they will abandon any attempt to better their situation.

But as I understand it, HELOCs typically have variable rates, and I am looking for as few surprises that would disrupt my leveraged cash flow as possible. 

. ;) Let's say I have $50K that I don't necessarily need to make any return on for 15 years, and I want the least disruption of my current business (least hassle/involvment, but if the return on my time is over say $500/hour, I'd be fine jumping in to resolve any issue) How would you go about investing this? 

Clinton used military action to disrupt his weapons program and then sent in the diplomacy clowns who accomplished nothing - but they gave diplomacy a shot which I can respect to a degree.

However, being in this position before, it's definitely not worth the disruption of life chasing after rent payments.

Instead, I believe that the big creative disruption is in land acquisition and partnering with real estate players to integrate tiny house solutions.

I was going to say get one of those noise disrupters cruise ships use to aim at pirates off the Somalia coast..