I'm always looking to expand my knowledge of what is going on in the city, be it of development of major projects, where the state/city is pumping money, and what may influence the growth of different parts of the city.

I than set out, it took some weeks but I got an advocate who than helped me to get a counsel member onto my cause, which lead to the next, and the next, and pretty soon we had the slimest of majority for counsel votes so we than scheduled and brought our proposal to formal counsel meeting.

If so, I always say to the seller, "the inspection brought up some areas of major concern.

She's been paralyzed with depression since. 

I'm not going to pretend that profiteering doesn't exist nor isn't a problem, but CA isn't solving any problems with their current legislation hopefully OR is doing better.All of the grants CA is pledging for low income housing just allows developers to create non profits, force cities to let them build monstrous apartment complexes, hold them for a few years and then sell them to a for profit entity for a depressed value based on the limited income.

I've heard good things about Spartan Invest as well, but haven't worked with them directly.You have to be careful in Birmingham, though - it's a pretty depressed market, especially around the city center.

There has been no building of my business, the only thing I did was see an incredibly depressed housing market, and bought distressed properties at an even bigger discount.

Fewer people needing houses drives prices down.  18 month of great depression. 

With public utilities, you have lower maintenance related to water/sewer and lower risk of major infrastructure issues.  

In the down turns of 2009 you could find decent deals in A and B areas with depressed pricing.