Figure out what aspect of real estate excites you and would seem enjoyable to you and follow your passion.For me, rehabbing a house would seem like a miserable punishment, while other people LOVE it.

Unfortunate that it does end up punishing legitimate people with legitimate business expenses as they're looking to expand.If I paid to run a yellow letter campaign in a new market and never closed a deal, I can't think of any justification for that not being a current expense.  

Paterson needs a new kind of assessment, but if the state won't move, investors and locals are punished in the process.

I forget the logic of how they got from A to Z on it, but it was clearly spelled out that your punishment would be for that.Maryland/DC is a very "special" place.  

I love it but I don't.I have always been on the reward side of the reward/punishment argument so this makes sense to me.But...Not when it comes to my money.

The self-employed before claimed a lot of income that didn't really exist so we are being punished for the criminals of the past.   

I call them: gluttons for punishment!

You should be hugged for that, not punished by politicians and the SEC.  

Some people respond better to the carrot, some people respond better to the stick - when it comes to whether reward or punishment works better as their motivator.

Instead of punishing Wall Street, the burden of compliance forced all the smaller firms out of business which benefited the big players who'd supposedly been so reckless a few years before.As far as its effect on business and investment, just look at the sluggish "recovery" of the last 8 years for evidence of an economy shackled by over-regulation and bureaucracy.