"simplify the income tax code, broaden the tax base, and eliminate many tax shelters."

I had also owned my own business in residential construction and fire & water restoration.Married 28 years with 4 kids, 4 grandchildren and 2 Golden's "Bob & Marley"I am looking forward to using this community to broaden my knowledge in the industry and obtaining our goals (which our still in progress).

I don't know much about other markets, but perhaps broadening your search for the 1031 exchange can help you find the cashflow you seek.

I might recommend narrowing your criteria a bit and focusing hard on one or two niches and perfecting that approach before broadening your net.

I guess using this line of reasoning we can never revise The Constitution to broaden the powers of the federal government either because they would have been added AFTER the enumerated powers.

POINT - Most of the people buying the "McMansions" do not have a problem qualifying.....FinanceExaminer is right in that OF will only broaden your buyer pool and YOU are right too in that going OF will allow you to get more...mostly because you are demanding a premium for offering a buyer something they can't get unless they go this route.When you start playing in the Owner Finance world (which is one of my specialties) you may not draw A+ candidates... the "steady streem of income" may not always be as "steady" as we would all like.

Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.You probably spend too little time studying the most successful, innovative and profitable ideas people in other industries use to grow and prosper.Yet, if you start focusing on other industry’s success practices, you’ll be amazed at how easily you can adapt these ideas to your own business situation.Suddenly, you’ll see significantly better ways to produce significantly better results from the same time, manpower, effort, activity, and capital.Vision isn't easy.As a result, most people let the opportunity of a lifetime slip through their fingers & live to regret it; but in this case I could make it easy for you to Not let this one slip away so that you can take advantage of this unique opportunity with zero risk.Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.In a recessionary economy like this, some 30 million people could be out of work -- they lost their jobs, got put on shortened work week.Millions will be (or are, right now) aggressively looking for business opportunities they can purchase or start.Though most of them don't have a lot of cash to invest, they still need income, they need work, they need productive activity that makes them money and keeps them feeling worthwhile.I believe there’s not one business owner or startup I’ve ever met in North America (and probably the world) who couldn’t, who shouldn’t broaden their perspective and think about how to grow yourself a small or large business empire.And that can mean nothing more than multiplying the size of your current business many times through external leveraged buyout acquisition activities.Or it can mean multiplying it through a roll up.

We have visited the area frequently over the years and currently involved in a local small business but have limited knowledge in the real estate market and rental market/trends.In addition to Asbury, we have broadened our search to include the surrounding Monmouth County shore towns but finding good deals hard to come by.

You might wanted to broaden your search to tertiary markets.

Hello BiggerPockets Community, BiggerPockets newbie from Atlanta(specifically Lilburn/Duluth area) ready to broaden my horizons into real estate investing.