Yes dear, that dress makes you look very nice, you don't look fat in it.

So the coloration is that people of certain class or working groups have a tendency of being similar.....thus you find trends among their decisions....so you end up avoiding them.

I prefer just to make the kill and leave the hauling, skinning, and dressing to the butchers.

Get rid of the guru books and start out in the very beginning with RE text books used in RE classes for Agents and RE 101 College text books, anyone who can read at a 9th grade level can study the basics.After that you can look at strategies and mailing out your yellow or colored letters.

Both are billed in two month cycles, so by the time the tenant showed his true colors and we received our copies of the bills, we were already three months into it.

Had to laugh at the sharp dressed schils at the back of the room, ma'aming and sir-ing everyone, hoping to squeeze them for 35k a pop.No thanks.

He passes with flying colors with more that enough income and great credit score.

So the big platinum colored Weil McLain tank to the right is purely hot water storage.

Such increased values are not taken by insured lenders.I can't change what the rules are, lower of cost or market, 12 months in RE valuations (marketable assets are different, they go at current book value, a horse of a different color, but I'd also say in reality, that any security that jumped in a very short period to double it's value probably wouldn't be taken at current book as collateral as it would be considered a very volatile security).The rules and regulations as well as definitions are what they are, opinions won't change them, I didn't make this stuff up, they have been effective for decades longer than I've been in business.As I mentioned, there are folks on BP who disagree, some for the opportunity to disagree, some to validate what they do, some have other motives, but it is what it is, you'll do better my understand the how valuations are treated.Point made on accounting matters, we are getting off topic in David's success story as the topic. :)

Haha Indeed it will @Shawn HolsappleBTW Shawn has a wealth of real estate experience and has been a huge help in answering questions at the past events.There will be both new and experienced investors attending.Don't worry about dressing up!