Can't hide your rental unit under your mattress, or deposit it in an offshore account.

If I want to gamble, I'll go to Las Vegas.Mike

Even beyond that is another level of specialists involved with off-shore ownerships and serious tax avoidance issues.

•Curacao is attractive for investors: great location, a stable democracy, no hurricanes, modern facilities and constant economic growth (3% in 2007)•Offshore banking available.

Rest assured there are other expenses, and if your deal only works with a low amount allocated for expenses, and you don't have reserves to cover the others when they come up, you're going to be in trouble when something happens.Those have been around a while know I sometimes compare investing to gambling.

So Jason,Do you want to sleep soundly or gamble on a bigger return?

Baby boomers are too close to retirement to gamble whats left of their next eggs.

I was thinking taking the cash now is better than gambling on the future (with the savings in mortgage I would be getting 65K over the 5 years).

Roy was gambling prices would rise enough to make these good investments.

I received the full $600.I ended up putting it in a penny stock...I figrued it was free money...might as well gamble a bit.WWEI....crap little stock but swings in predictable cycles...at least it did over the summer.I couldn't have gotten luckier with my timing bought at .06 and sold at .18....went to .20...now its back down.Litterally like going to vegas.So I tripled the money to 1,800.I kept 600 in my trading account.