Investing and charity are two very different things to me and combining them may be less than optimal for both.

I think vacation rental is it optimal use.

Completely agree...though my big point was that if a company has been scamming people for 14 years, there would certainly be more information about it on the web...which there doesn't seem to be...

(Obvious I don't know your taxable income to make that call.)If you withdraw, you do have alot more flexibility investing with non-qualified funds, such as optimizing with leverage and having access to much better financing terms/rates, that can give you a substantially higher ROI than you might achieve in a retirement account.By pulling funds from the IRA/401K, you have also walked out of the casino of guessing on current vs future tax rates (with $100 trillion of federal liabilities, tax rates are quite conceivably going UP).

I have also found that being an active blogger can help you with your search engine optimization campaign.

I would try Googling residential real estate leases with your state in the search and see what you can borrow off the web.

Many cities have web sites that they call assessor sites that show tax value and show history of sales.

I'd love to get feedback on anything missing from the list I am going to invite to the March event:Angel Investor1Architect1Banker3Broker1Builder1Civil Engineer1Commercial Property Broker1Commercial Loan Broker2CPA1Credit Optimization Specialist1Fee Developer1Financial Adviser2Hard Money Lender / Developer3Investor16Investor / Broker7Investor / Developer10Land Broker1Lawyer5Loan Broker1Paper Investor2Permitting Expert1PR Specialist1Private Money Broker1Private Money Lender2Small Regional Bank Broker1Social Media Consultant / Author1Spec Loan Participating Loan Specialist1Syndicator5Third Party Builder Liability Company1Title Company Closer2Wholesaler2The numbers to the right of each category represent the frequency, or how many folks I would invite from each category.

A quick look at the FEMA web page looks like it is in a flood zone (it appears to be in zone AE).

I want to start and have only the basic information I have read on the web.