Has anyone here invested with them (or other gas/oil royalties)?  

I have done business with royalty in africa and very high profile people in the US and Europe just by asking.

Specifically gross income means all income from whatever source derived, including (but not limited to) the following items: (look at 2,3,and 5)(1) Compensation for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits, and similar items;(2) Gross income derived from business;(3) Gains derived from dealings in property;(4) Interest;(5) Rents;(6) Royalties;(7) Dividends;(8) Alimony and separate maintenance payments;(9) Annuities;(10) Income from life insurance and endowment contracts;(11) Pensions;(12) Income from discharge of indebtedness;(13) Distributive share of partnership gross income;(14) Income in respect of a decedent; and(15) Income from an interest in an estate or trustI am not a lawyer (would not admit it if i were) but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.

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@Ben Leybovich Royalty in either case to us common folk.  ;-)

I am going to look into him though maybe I have some royalties, haha!!

Taken from http://www.irs.gov/uac/Form-1099-MISC,-Miscellaneo...Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous IncomeFile this form for each person to whom you have paid during the year: at least $10 in royalties or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest;at least $600 in rents, services (including parts and materials), prizes and awards, other income payments, medical and health care payments, crop insurance proceeds, cash payments for fish (or other aquatic life) you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish, or, generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate;any fishing boat proceeds, gross proceeds of $600, or more paid to an attorney during the year, orwithheld any federal income tax under the backup withholding rules regardless of the amount of the payment.Also, use this form to report that you made direct sales of at least $5,000 of consumer products to a buyer for resale anywhere other than a permanent retail establishment.

Buying investment properties with cash is still more fun.There is no caste system, royalty or other impediment in the United States to prevent anyone from building wealth by studying hard, working hard, working smart, saving and investing.Many people who fancy themselves as sophisticated real estate investors are really just rent collectors for banks, stuck with almost all of the risk and little of the reward.

Same principle as receiving residual royalties for a one-off burst of creativity.Also, this does not prevent you from using your "connection guy" for other deals too.

The last three generations have lived off of oil & gas well royalties and it is all going to **** if I am being honest.