If the government mandates 90 % you artificially take the competition off the market.

@Steve L.Could I be so bold as to ask approx. how much someone like you mention is costing (I read the entry on your website about the process and I'm intrigued)I have a man who is very experienced (managed 98 units, licensed arborist, competent carpenter, plumbing and electric and roofing, intelligent, independent, etc. though he probably is a little perfectionist and might eat up some extra time that way) but he's self employed and billing at (an agreed upon) $27 per hour. this is higher than my main carpenter but he is much cheaper than my roofer, plumbier, etc. so it can even out.

The fact that nothing backs up our dollar any longer since Nixon, we have an artificial or synthetic financial system.

That is that there is an abundance of highly intelligent, educated people in this community.

So I firmly believe that was a step in the right direction.Meanwhile, my girlfriend of three and a half years and I went to a rich dad free seminar down at the country club, and two things happened: she started to see where investing and 'financial intelligence' could take us, and I got fired up again about real estate investing (from two angles this time).Our current situation is as follows:Me:Almost zero cash and minimal credit available at this pointSOME stuff in collections from when I was in school, medical stuffsomewhere around 20,000 in school loans10,000 in credit card debt, plus another 5000 for my Jeep.Her:about 5000 in savings for a rainy dayprobably around 20,000 in available credit if she asked for itJUST(October) purchased the home we live in, so a new mortgage of 150,000That's about it.Right now I'm hurting for the winter, as I'm pretty new in the real estate business, and she's doing okay.

I had a similar situation, you are entitled to make a profit for increasing the value of the asset, they just want to make sure you haven't artificially inflated the value of the property, and that something has been done to improve the value.

Being relatively new to Investing, while researching, I've found myself in company of very intelligent and momentous individuals.

It completely leaves things out like talent, business savvy, intelligence, personal choices and their consequences, etc.

They're speculating on the capital appreciation that they are artificially creating in certain markets.

Fictitious, or artificial, persons are business entities such as LLCs, Corporations, Partnerships, etc....