I wouldn't be able to call it a scam without being involved first hand, however, I don't know if any intelligent invest that would be giving close to a million dollars without vetting properly.

With a decline in home ownership in the millennial generation, we may never reach 70% home ownership again unless the government continues to artificially encourage it by keeping interest rates at all time lows.

From my understanding and I could be wrong, auction and others make fake bids to artificially increase the price of properties.

I'm a very hard worker and pretty intelligent guy (so I like to believe).

Similar to a peer-to-peer lending platform, also called crowdfunding, a family lending platform enables relatives to lend one another money while the “platform” intelligently handles the contractual details and the loan servicing, e.g. payments.

The house sits on one of the many artificial lakes here in the desert, and was built in 1993.

There is too much of a market demand for STR for the city to artificially deprive this growing customer base.

But the upside is that I now have the experience to negotiate intelligently with sub contractors and create fairly realistic renovation schedules.

Bill,So far, you've given the most intelligent aanswer.The problem is it's all well and good to think personal information you give to a park manager is confidential but as long as it's sitting in some file cabinet for any potentially nefarious employee to get, it's not.Hopefully someday social security numbers are phased out in favor of something reliable like biobiometrics.

That's what's needed to give residential construction a second wind.Since the recession ended, "it's been a rich man's housing recovery," says Carl Riccadonna, chief U.S. economist at Bloomberg Intelligence.