Hearing stuff about "Lehman Brothers", "Bernie Madoff", and stories from a  a co-worker during college who has been trying to retire since 2000 (but failed due to losing money the dot-com crash, Enron, and the "Great recession") made me skeptical of investment "experts."

It took 2 months on market and I were so scare market crashed at that time but needs to hold 2 years to get tax free gains as primary residence

Chris Dodd and Barney Frank - retired senators from CT and MA I think who sponsored a bill after the financial crash in 2008 which implements a number of regulations that impact lenders.  

I use a state and federally licensed RMLO so I am SPECIFICALLY complying with both state and federal regulations.I was a licensed loan officer until I gave it up during the crash as it was a waste of a license when no one wanted to buy. 

My first was a fixer-upper that we owned for 7 years and sold for a good profit about 3 minutes before the real estate market crashed in our area.

, you can take the 9 day crash course at ASREB, which will be the most time consuming part of becoming an agent.

Some leverage works as a tool, too much and the slightest hiccup can bring the whole thing crashing down.

(Similar to the principle: When the price of your shares crash - buy MORE).

We love renting from ourselves at the first practice, and would like to do the same here, but this building is multi use, with our dental practice on the first floor, and 7 apartment units (2 in the basement, 1 on the first floor, and 4 upstairs).I have been taking a crash course in multi family real estate here at BP and Google. 

@Jon HoldmanThank you for all your input. as a first time home buyer going through a 203k, its been quite the learning experience. a sort of crash course on real estate.