There are ways to get all of the information for free however it is time consuming and most investors don't want to waste their time trying to do that.

I find RE investing fascinating, but i find being a RE agent very time consuming as I work full time elsewhere.I guess I just need justification to quit?

If it is the realtor make sure he/she is sending you the agent detail view and the the standard consumer view.

It is a cost of doing business that is paid by the consumer who ultimately buys a product or service from them.A natural person is the only entity in this country that is prohibited from passing through all taxes to someone else.

Someone once told me that consumer debt makes you a slave to your job.

Focused on consumers overall, but a lot of material about housing.

Now granted, he is 6'4" which makes for a large guy, and I am pretty sure that swimming consumes alot of calories, but come on, 12,000 calories!

Many consumers are trying to get into REOs but the banks won't finance these as is properties for the regular consumers in some instances.

Even though she sold it at a loss, she will end up showing a gain, for tax purposes, of over $9,500 due to the depreciation recapture.Yes, she got to write that off while holding at a rate higher than the 25% recapture but she is still in the hole with a real out of pocket loss and the earlier depreciation write offs consumed the entire loss at sale.Depreciation is still a good deal for an investor.BTW, many think they can just forgo taking the deduction while they are holding, for whatever reason.

So I realized that stuffing my own envelopes is far too time consuming.