His advice follows what most FA seem to all say: invest for the long-term in stocks and mutual funds and gradually build a solid portfolio of securities .

Rents started gradually going up not long after that and I had the good fortune of finding out about a mother-in-law/guest house for LOW LOW rent, so I jumped on it!  

I am in that business and I really hate it when a property sits on the market because I know I am losing value every day.I expect 2011 to continue to witness a gradual decline in prices, with a possible stabilization in 2012, followed, hopefully, by a mild recovery.

From what I've experienced thus far, it seems like the best resources for a comprehensive training layout of all of the basics that gradually advance to more advanced material, books and workshops are the answer.

But in the bright shiny objects space of the market that flavor of inventory is tight and projected to be gradually less tight.Mortgage lenders have become pretty sophisticated to prevent sweeping foreclosure apocalypses like what has happened in the past, particularly in how careful they have been in lending practices and how they offer alternative solutions to foreclosure for those facing "temporary" inabilities to pay. 

I assume you started small and continued flipping properties gradually increasing your wealth.  

So to calculate a real return you had better factor in the reality that your homes will rapidly lose their value.Thus a large part of your projected cash flow is a return OF your capital not a return ON your capital - i.e. you are gradually liquidating your own business.If you were buying near-worthless old homes for much less money, and buying land already developed as pads, to get your lot rent - that would seem to make sense.

I look forward to learning every detail there is to wholesaling from those of you who have dabbled and mastered it, and gradually reaching a point to flip or hold.Till next time!

Over the last year, my fix and flip business has grown gradually and it looks like to grow further I'm kicking around the idea of trying to use some hard money to fund more projects and to get used to working with hard money.

Do I continue to market only to those people or do I gradually add people to grow my list?