As a bank examiner, I appraised real estate and did appraisals on various types of property.

Even while making excess payments on student loans, I have been able to wrack up 15-20k on the side as a cushion for worst-case scenario in life.Now I am at a crossroads, do I want to dump most of that cushion into my student loans or should I invest in RE?

I would absolutely not get nerved out over a few days late, it could be worse.

This message goes out to my buddy Rick Harmon,,,Rick you really brought up some images from " Memory Lane" concerning "Fast Talking " Tommy Vu,,,the King of the Late Night Infomercial,,,,Just for giggles .Id like to see if I could buy one of his oldie but moldy courses on Ebay for examination,,,,Now keeping that thought Rick ,the vehicle of the "late night infomercial" is not all bad,,,in fact our mutual friend ,Tony Alvarez admitted and said during a recent presentation that Dave Del Dotto's course was the catalyst and incentive for him to pursue REI in the first place,,,,and,,as they say ,,"the rest is history,," Tony dun' reel good fo his seff"I think it all boils done to this Rick ,,,,in Tommy Vu words or near words,,,,"You No Worky,,,!!!

At times it's incredibly scary, nervewracking, risky and down right terrifying venture that we call Real Estate Investment but we do it, love it, wouldn't change it for the world and we go on to reap the rewards.My strong reason why is to allow the time for me to spend it with family in a HUGE Class A RV seeing the beautiful sights of this incredible country we call home - USA!!!

In examining other alternative asset classes, such as hedge funds, venture capital structures, and some other alternative assets charge a 2/20 fee (2% of funds held and 20% profit earned, with some funds even higher on the profit end).  

That is a lot of money, and the nerve of someone actually legally being told to leave and NOT leaving?  

I'd argue its not my responsibility to examine how the 1099 issuer/tenant applies those payments to their own finances, whether its funneled through the corp or on the personal taxes.

So we went looking and found 4 quads.I'm trying to wrack my brain how to do the deal.Another investor said to make the deal at arms lenght, i.e. buy the home, then sell to VA.

I would give you a more thorough examination, but prices swing quite widely in VC, can you confirm where it's located?