They are embarrassed by the business aspect of making offers and as a result at very often unprofessional in regards to making offers.Why do they help investors...because they are not personally in the market to buy every good deal that comes along, ethically they may not be allowed to buy listings and, like us, must have th emoney/financing and be in buy mode.Good investor agents are difficult to find and worth their weight in gold.

Do you weight it by the tax shield as a percentage of your overall shield?

At the risk of sounding very egotistical, I don't care for being seen as following someone who is just starting out, why would I want to appear to be giving validation or weight to what that person is saying or doing?

Do you guys think inspection clauses hold any weight on whether you get the contract or not when you make an offer on a REO to the bank?

Also, losing fat and weight through low carb/low fat diets and not gaining any muscle, left me looking like a stick.

as far as precious metals, we have collected silver coins over the years mostly as collectables, but now they seem to 'pulling their weight' so to speak - very glad we got them when we did.

As far as a bad rating, I can only imaging how much weight they carry.

That number of followers carries a lot of weight.

I think it depends on your economic outlook and the weight you're willing to put behind your beliefs.Not to open up another argument, but as an example, if Manuel truly believes that an economic collapse is inevitable within the next top 10 year (and for anyone else who believes this), I really don't understand why there is any other option besides cashing in everything you have, transferring your net-worth to another currency and moving to another country.On the other end of the spectrum, for those that believe the status quo (not necessarily today's conditions but the "typical" economic conditions of this country) will continue indefinitely, I see no reason to change any course from where it previous has been, assuming you believe that course was previously correct.Now, I guessing, many are like me in their belief that the economic landscape is changing -- perhaps not catastrophically, but certainly non-trivially.

If the joists stop on the wall then its definitely weight bearing.