You have joined a good group that should enable you to reach your goals.

After paying off lots of debt and establishing myself financially, I began exploring the stock market last year, and I quickly found out that the stock market enables the rich to get richer, yet does not service those looking to build wealth nearly as well as I thought.

So since my thinking is on applying pressure to his parents since they are enabling him to continue fighting getting the city involved to apply pressure on the parents seems like a good idea.http://www.hcdnnj.org has some interesting articles on how to apply pressure on property holders who are holding down values, and causing distress to the city.

(Old school gamer-at-heart here haha!)

She wants to buy a house in Anchorage and is worried she will use up all her money to renovate the ER house or that a loan on the ER house will not enable her to qualify for a new home.2.

I'm not selling anything, I'm just feeling jazz'ed that BiggerPockets enabled me to do all this, and I'm willing to help the next guy.

It's not as easy as HGTV or the infomercials will have you believe but it will enable you to attain financial freedom if you put in the time & effort. 

A SDIRA investment would forgo the benefit of non-cash expenses (depreciation) but would enable the investor to defer taxes until IRA distributions are made.

This will enable me to focus on my goal of acquiring buy and hold properties to build a consistent recurring income.

<soapbox>The purpose of the "50% rule" {of thumb} is to enable you to quickly triage candidate properties and dispense with those for which a deal simply could not work.