Usually people acquire properties at a more measured pace and the higher performing ones carry the weak ones until they too are carrying their weight.

Download a spending tracker.When I wanted to lose weight I downloaded a food tracker.

Well how about at the height of the market, August 2005, they wrote this article titled:In the long run, sleep at home and invest in the stock market.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/realestate/19rea...Don't worry though, I wouldn't put too much weight in the opinions of the most respected financial and econonmic professionals on the planet, investment properties by a long shot right...

The LAST factor in pricing variation, which we saw the last few years in greater weight than ever in my life-time is OPPORTUNITY COST.

SP punches above its weight as far as political and media visibility.The "downtown" (14th ave) is improving with several recently opened restaurants occupying recently rehabbed original commercial structures, alongside well established mexican places.   

With drop-off and pick-up in Northeast Minneapolis, I paid just under $400 base rate for a 10-yard dumpster with a 7 day window.However, I also had a ton of plaster and lath that we had demo'd out of the unit and ended up getting hit with another $95 weight overage charge from the dumpster company.  

You need to weight all the pros and cons to decide if it worth for you.

Awesome post, I've been working on building a weighted score to find `hot spots` to invest: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/813403-new-bp-member-buidling-a-model-for-analysis?

Your girlfriend will either appreciate your professionalism and your understanding of the weight of this proposal for your economic futures and your relationship, or she'll be insulted that you feel she needs to enter into a full agreement for every aspect of this investment deal.

For office use I have had good luck with steelcase.It's not cheap, and some of it sells online (the custom stuff gets expensive).They have chairs for people of greater weight too, which might hold up longer (???)