The investor also had no backup plan, and it was clear they hadn’t considered the potential risk if this failed - they just said "we would foreclose" - which if they did would (at best) provide single digit return...It gets even better, if they did get the borrower to follow their exit strategy, they would make around 13%...Here’s the problem: The gurus often make note investing sound like it’s just a game of persuasion, telling you it’s "easy" to get borrowers to agree to anything if you push the right buttons.

To help deal with that we try to push responsibility for guests' behavior back onto our tenant.

I could roll over those amounts into another Roth IRA of my choosing.

By telling everyone to wholesale to become an investor, you are just pushing them down a path of projected failure."

Don't be discouraged if there is a lot of push back from sellers or agents at first, many of them aren't familiar with seller finance deals or have situations that can't be solved with seller financing (for example, as was mentioned above, they may need a more conventional offer to pay off their house and buy another one).

When you are the money and they are the work, they can add up their construction costs higher to push more to their side without you knowing.You are really saying you would like to be a lender on someone's project.

I guess I should tell you a little about me and what was my pushing factor.

If it is only lets say 2-3 years, at least you know you can roll out your money in 2-3 years when you leave, opposed to maybe many years into the future.

If your income exceeds $150,000, your ability to deduct passive losses from rental properties is limited, and any disallowed losses carry forward to future years under the passive activity loss rules.Yes, the deductions can accumulate and roll over year after year.

Best of luck and keep pushing.