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Old 05-02-2018, 08:34 PM
 
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They are still there. You clearly can tell when walking around who's there for the convention and who's there for extracurricular stuff. As far as a general increase around the city, I don't know but the girls go where the money is (and the spouses aren't). I'd be surprised if there wasn't elevated activity throughout the city this week.
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Old 05-03-2018, 08:48 AM
 
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What happened to the prostitutes? Couple of years ago, the HPD Chief and an anti-human trafficking organization representative were highlighting the sad reality that conventions temporarily increase the supply-and-demand of this lewd industry all over the TV news.
I never ever ..... want to hear anybody complain about that
after seeing this story

Ex-United pilot who ran Houston brothels gets probation and $2000 fine

The judge ordered Wallis to spend five years on deferred adjudication probation, pay $2,000 fine and perform 150 hours of community service — which he suggested he serve at a woman's shelter. If Wallis completes the probation, he will not have a felony conviction on his record and can keep his FAA-issued pilot's license, with which he operates his other business, a flight school. He was suspended from United Airlines after his arrest.
Wallis, 53, was charged in 2015 with aggravated promotion of prostitution and engaging in criminal activity, accused of being the mastermind behind an illicit empire including about a half-dozen brothels in Galleria-area apartments and northwest Houston office buildings with six to 10 women.
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Old 05-03-2018, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Mo City, TX
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Okay, so how much money is being spent on this conference and all off the party favors?
That is the first cost cutting measure. Stop spending money money like a drunken sailor on things that could be done by email or some other inexpensive method.
You gotta spend money to make money
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Old 05-03-2018, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Legal services is the fourth major industry--often forgotten--in this town. Houston is a good place to live and work if you're a lawyer/paralegal.

Three law schools, the private South Texas College of Law, and formerly the only two public schools in Texas outside of UT-Austin, UH Law Center and TSU--notable since Sweatt v. Painter forced the State of Texas to form a Negro law school and ended up creating the other public HBCU in the state (Prairie View is in the exurbs).

Since Houston is a global focused city, there are plenty of foreign-licensed lawyers who offer their services to deal with matters within a foreign country. Most of the international lawyers in Texas are in the Houston area.

A few huge law firms are headquartered Downtown. Their size resembles the Big 4 Accounting offices.

There is plenty of vacant office space in the Houston area. The Dallas and Austin housing market is becoming unaffordable--prices are starting to resemble California with Texas wages. I could see companies coming to Houston because of housing and COL affordability for a major American metro.

Calgary was booming uncontrollably during the oil boom and government officials and civilians were complaining about the challenges for massive growth in a short time span. It was a lesson that growth overwhelming the infrastructure at one time is really bad.
I'm sure that the Legal Services sector is substantial, and in Downtown it is an important driver of office occupancy (and to a much lesser extent in Greenway and Uptown) - but aren't a good-sized share of such services here being provided to the O&G industry, or providers to O&G? How much of the legal services sector is providing services unrelated to O&G and furthermore "exporting" those services to customers outside the Houston region?
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Old 05-03-2018, 09:51 AM
 
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What happened to the prostitutes? Couple of years ago, the HPD Chief and an anti-human trafficking organization representative were highlighting the sad reality that conventions temporarily increase the supply-and-demand of this lewd industry all over the TV news.
I worked last year from September to around December at a job where I to take that stretch of Bissonnett between Beltway 8 and 59. There are girls there walking at 7 in the morning and also when I would leave at 4:30. I would assume not much has changed since, well, they have been there since The Potomac Indians made peace with the Seminoles. There's nothing more entertaining than watching some gump getting arrested while eating a little Popeye's on a Tuesday, enjoying that leg and thigh special.
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Old 05-03-2018, 10:16 AM
 
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Did you read that in an economics book some where? Perfect example of why we are considered some of the least educated people on the planet.
The big oil companies in Houston disagree with you
All of them spent millions on advertisements while they were laying people off
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Old 05-03-2018, 11:17 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Legal services is the fourth major industry--often forgotten--in this town. Houston is a good place to live and work if you're a lawyer/paralegal.

Three law schools, the private South Texas College of Law, and formerly the only two public schools in Texas outside of UT-Austin, UH Law Center and TSU--notable since Sweatt v. Painter forced the State of Texas to form a Negro law school and ended up creating the other public HBCU in the state (Prairie View is in the exurbs).

Since Houston is a global focused city, there are plenty of foreign-licensed lawyers who offer their services to deal with matters within a foreign country. Most of the international lawyers in Texas are in the Houston area.

A few huge law firms are headquartered Downtown. Their size resembles the Big 4 Accounting offices.

There is plenty of vacant office space in the Houston area. The Dallas and Austin housing market is becoming unaffordable--prices are starting to resemble California with Texas wages. I could see companies coming to Houston because of housing and COL affordability for a major American metro.

Calgary was booming uncontrollably during the oil boom and government officials and civilians were complaining about the challenges for massive growth in a short time span. It was a lesson that growth overwhelming the infrastructure at one time is really bad.
I was reading that times are very difficult in Calgary and Alberta in general right now as there economy is very tied to O&G.
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Old 05-03-2018, 02:41 PM
 
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Things are booming, construction everywhere I see, single family, retail and commercial. I can't keep home inventory on the ground, almost all selling prior to completion. In fact, we have a serious construction labor shortage. Desperate need for drywall installers, tile setters, painters...etc.
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Old 05-03-2018, 03:56 PM
 
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So are we in a real estate market cycle?
I think hope / optimism stage

It was not as bad as I thought it would be

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Old 05-03-2018, 06:01 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Things are booming, construction everywhere I see, single family, retail and commercial. I can't keep home inventory on the ground, almost all selling prior to completion. In fact, we have a serious construction labor shortage. Desperate need for drywall installers, tile setters, painters...etc.
This is all the people reconstructing their homes due to Harvey flooding.

The underlying economic fundamentals aren't strong though.
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