Being as a real estate investor does not mean you have to trade your current job/career for a low wage, manual labor job where you are on-call 24/7 365 days a year.Throughout history the biggest profits are in owning the means of production, not in being part of the production machinery.

(case in point: the brownie eating cop & his wife 911 call) It scares the hell out of me to think these people are going to be operating machinery like a car or a SEMI.What gets me the most is all the money that has been SPENT with tax dollars telling people POT=BAD, now since they have discovered it has a taxable value, its all A-OK.

Read this Bernanke presentation carefully - it is about as precise as any study I've ever read.My belief about the money supply (M2/M3, not M0 and generally not M1) is probably as close as any, but the DEFLATION caused the most pain in the contraction phase (we're in that now and gaining momentum) - it FELL 30 percent, rather similar to today's RE/Fuel/Machinery pricing trends.

Why should that inventory be any different than financing heavy machinery or any other product.

For example hosehold items, camera equipment, machinery can be used but it will take a special "dealer" to use such for collateral.

Please just thank Edd and Steve for all their great work, as we're now in some pretty fantastic equipment (we were before, but this was a dramatic addition of new machinery).

Look at a house or piece of machinery where the price is falling yet fill that market basket of goods and services and it will cost you more to get out the door, the net being flat.

This political risk (for your project) is hedged by the fact that NAR has huge clout and lobbying machinery so it wouldn't go down without a fight.

We are changing from 4x6 to 6x9 envelopes due to our volume and that our machinery will only take the 6x9.

I was able to grind a 18" stump in less than 4 hours (that includes a 45 minute drive to pick up the grinder, grinding the stump and returning the grinder)It depends on your comfort level with machinery.