@Jon Lee my buddy called me the other day and said the hot ticket is a house in Vegas for rentals because of the new football team coming in.

That said my first real estate deal I ever did was a vacant piece of land that I bought for 30k and sold it for 50k 6 months later that was 10 acres in a rural area outside of Las Vegas.

@Dan Brewer  I generally agree with you except a few markets that the rental market absolutely tanked with the property values.. and that was PHX area and Vegas...

Last weekend I put out a load of bandit signs around the Vegas valley.

Only pitches I've sat through are ones where I genuinely am interested in the product, or where they give me something (like a free stay in Vegas), and even then, by the end of the pitch I tell myself "never again." 

we talked to two real estate attorney in las vegas. #1 quoted us $500 and said that we don't have to file a business license in las vegas. #2 quoted us $1000 (to file the paperwork, all the fees, to be our registered agent) and he recommended to us to file a business license.

There's no guarantee your partner, whose only skin in the game is reputation, won't rip you off, head to Vegas and go on one heck of a bender.

I just got back from Vegas yesterday fixing up a condo I purchased out there.

Then, Intuit increased the price to $125 per year and then Intuit stopped selling the tables and forced everyone to switch to Quickbooks.I had no problem with trying to switch to Quickbooks and I purchased the full version three times for about $500 each time and literally threw the software in the trash because it asked too many questions during the setup, was cumbersome and difficult to use, was so complicated it left room for making too many errors, had too many whistles and bells to deal with and there three things that make me hate Quickbooks with a passion and they are:1) it is web based and super slow when changing screens, 2) the software has so many screens to enter information on it is difficult to know whether or not information you enter goes to where it was supposed to go e.g. you may accidentally type in a wrong number, or you may enter data as a debint when it should be a credit and3) Intuit is greedy and found that they could charge $109 per month for the software and the tax tables and that comes out to $1308.00 every year, or $13,080 every 10 years compared to the $99 or $990 every 10 years I was paying for Quicken that was simple to setup and use, but it still had some file storage problems that were fairly frustrating to deal with.I had a major IRS audit about 10 years ago and it was the first major audit I dealt with for several real estate properties in California, Idaho, Las Vegas and Colorado.

Also - another personal funny moment - I love that our society says you can blow money at the casino with equity in your home, but don't you date invest it lol.