I don't care how old or smart you are -- if you have a single trusting bone in your body you will get taken for something, sometime, and usually more than once (though not in the same way or, hopefully, by the same person).Knowing that is how I am, I try not to ever bet the whole farm and therefore limit potential damage.The pain to my pride, however, always seems pretty depthy, if I may coin a word.

I was told at the tile shop that through-body porcelain is the only kind of tile that's virtually impossible for tenants to ruin.

-Lord Peter Wimsey, "Whose Body?"

The road you are thinking of taking is littered with bodies Steve.

It is advisable to do your due diligence and ask about such things as how long have they been in business, are alternative assets their sole focus, are they BBB accredited and rated, are they a regulated financial institution, have they ever been sanctioned by any regulatory bodies, how many accounts and how much in assets do they administer?

To shorten things they are now treading water and I checked myself out knowing what I had ignored for the past 8-10 years to get them above water.Now I have been diagnosed with melanoma throughout my body, it is considered stage 4.

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Here is mistake #3 (I think): only owning one property.I have no new lessons YET with the current tenants.My husband is in a skilled trade that his body will allow him to do for a maximum of 10 more years.

I have used Sigma 10-20 on an older Nikon D40, it was a fantastic body/lens combination.

As my body gets older what you can do physically becomes more limited versus you can keep learning with your brain and get better over time.