"John Carona: Slumlord Senator Gets Caught August 14, 2008 Dallas - State Senator John Carona's carefully sanitized media image was shattered yesterday when Houston TV station KHOU, Channel 11, identified him as CEO of the property management company responsible for "condos in danger of collapse" in spite of having collected management fees for years.

See section on 1031 exchanges which keep you informed of the Housing Bill 8/08 which establishes that the House and the Senate want to penalize small investors.

I personally think the Quicken Loans idea will work and I intend to forward it to every Senator and Congressmen I can find and E-mail address for.

The Senate passed "a bill" last night.

Principal of my firm lives in DC and his neighbor is a Senator on a banking committee.

This isn't luck, I just decided I wanted to meet him, so I did, and he introduced me to every Senator and congressman in the state.Relationships are everything and it's your choice to foster this.

Rod Blagoyevich - Illinois governor - proposes a gross receipts tax that taxes your top line income and would have killed blue collar business owners (easy way to take plumbers into the 250k tax bracket, btw) and Illinois Senator Obama is still not on record saying anything about it (unless someone can find it).

Unless the Senate and House all act as one along with the president.

I've written my congressman and senators with my views on this.

Don't forget that Senate races are just as important if not more important.My suggestion, vote every incumbent out.