@John, True true re the self motivated and lucky few who are brilliant as well.  

Spring brings brilliant wildflowers, budding trees, lovely morel mushrooms and the joyful antics of the wildlife youngsters.

I'm a broker and investor up here in Sacramento, I manage over 100 STR properties and a ton of people lately are coming from the Bay Area taking advantage of their accrued equity.If you have enough to spare without over-leveraging yourself, and if you can get a good rate from the bank, I think it's a brilliant strategy...

They jump in during an upswing, the market goes up, they make money, & they do the gorilla chest-thumping about how great/brilliant they are. 

@Josephine GiordanoThat's awesome about the pizza boxes - brilliant! 

It’s a brilliant build/concept developed by area architects (as I’ve been told) to meet the housing needs of the community.

He is a brilliant man with many wonderful gifts that I'm still thankful for. 

Expand, formalize, give those with the capital but without the capabilities of operations like your brilliant Engineering mind naturally has, a chance to invest IN YOU. 

My brilliant mortgage broker Tim Floyd was amazing and really saved the project a few times by finding me money.My real estate agent Andrew Pitarre was incredible and really knew what he was doing!

Brilliant!