Things have been quite nuts lately ;-)I invited two of my partners, our broker, our architect, and one of our GCs to the meeting too to spice things up some.

Nuts!

The house is 1.25 miles from water (charter fishing/kayaking/beaches) all available year round.

Or you may need to provide a seller second mortgage, or even a seller first mortgage to the buyer.You have caught a big fish on the line, don't let it get away!

This is all opinion mind you. the guys on Wall street would say I am nuts but hey most of the brokers over there are broke too.

Good turkey hunting and fishing here too.

(Heck, throw in marketing and management courses and you've got the functional parts of most business administration degrees.)It always drives me nuts when I see people spend thousands and thousands on expensive real estate 'courses' or 'mentors' when that money could have been spent a lot more productively learning some basic business principles at a local college.

I believe with interest rates so low right now, and prices at the bottom (though, I know Portland is a little nuts sometimes on prices) now is the perfect time to begin picking up good cash-flowing rentals.

It's next to impossible to get anyone to do anything and if you do find someone, they'll stick their hand so deep in your pocket, they'll be fishing around in your sock for money.

But the nut grows a lot faster that way as far as I can tell.I've run scenarios with equity investors and that seems like it would be more attractive from an investor point of view but that's where I'm not sure of the structure used by others in determining the return for the investor.