I've kind of ignored the folks that advertise on tv and such because it always seems to have some annoying element to me.

I had just passed my series 7 and 63 license exams.

We’ve been trying to change this trend for years, but the society at large has decided that shoes, clothes, big-screen tv, big house, and a $4 dollar cup of coffee every morning is more important…Sad, but true

(I have also heard the same thing about Samsung appliances).As far as TV's, the appliance salesmen have said that LG and Samsung make good TV's.

I'm still researching the Series LLC but haven't made a decision on it yet.

That drives the learning process, and turns it into a series of specific things that you must learn one after the other, rather than a vague "learn lots of stuff about RE" which is harder to act on.Start with an end goal in mind, and then work backwards from that.

True -- and the tenant can't go without their cell phone or cable TV (or internet).

You'd do better by using a CD as collateral at the bank for a series of short loans and paying them as agreed.It's easier to start with your own home, work that in first.Lenders look to the type of credit, consumer credit for more of the same, real estate they look to rent and previous RE loans.

But offering a series of month-to-month or 6-month leases would seemingly allow for a landlord to raise the rent in a stepwise fashion... at least according to the letter of this law.

From there I moved on to Muass Mutual and eventually became an independent broker.I had my series 7 license but focused more on insurance products such as mutual funds & permanent life.