I recall a large claim several years ago where a swimmer cut a huge gash in their foot by a large chunk of broken glass from a beer bottle on the bottom of the pool.

One, you might want to consider Seller Financing (in Michigan, we call it a Land Contract) which can allow you to buy property while using the Seller as Banker; not all Sellers are open to this, but it can be beneficial to both the Buyer and Seller.

Right now there's huge concentration, but as this continues to build out and we see north of the high 30s GW by 10 years from now it'll be almost a requirement to keep some type of locality based risk assessment and to diversify. 

So making sure you are presenting yourself as credible and trustworthy, can make a huge difference in building the relationship and hearing about those off-market deals. 

I still have a huge desire to own a place in Mazatlan Mexico.

Common syndicator game of throwing out huge returns when other funds are going under because they want you to only look at that shiny number and not what their past performance has been

The interest rate isn't that huge of a difference between the 15 and 30 so worst case scenario if you have the 30 year option is you start paying it down on a 15 year timeline - sure you'll pay a little more in interest over the 15 years, but it will have been worth it if you bought another house.

They wouldn't be coming to you.So you can get a gold standard investment advisor and give up .5 to 2% of your return, or you can send the money to one or more huge index funds like Vanguard 500 index fund and sleep well at night.But if you think you have something of value other than the generic value of money, you will be sorely disappointed.

A contractor can help with this or realtor who has done this3. depending on what side of highway 35 this is on is going to be a huge deal4.

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