The reality is that if it's an un-subsidized portfolio mortgage, the rate/points needs to beat the ROI of a Wall Street index fund or generic REIT, or it would never make sense for a lender to do the loan, since they could park the $400k with Wall Street or a REIT and make more than they'd make by lending you money.

Lurkers: Keep in mind that anyone with $100k can just dump it into a Wall Street S&P 500 index fund that might pay 7% conservatively.

- Requiring a rate greater than a blended mix of 10yr mutual/index fund return averages?

With our budget and saving plan established I began investing in low cost index funds.

Biggerpockets http://get.biggerpockets.com/forms/index/ has leases available, you can also look up online places such as legal zoom, law depot, and others.

This should be in the off-topic forum.That said, I play FXI (NYSE) against FXP (AMEX).Both are Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) tied to the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index.

I have an index card I carry around that helps maintain.side1. a.x10 I am a real estate millionaire b. what is one thing that I dont want to do today, but if I did it.

I am a doctoral student with: [list]little debt (car loan and 35k in student loans), little assets (3k in an index fund, 7k in a target retirement fund/Roth IRA, 1k in individual stocks, 5k in cash), little income (just my student stipend of less than $20,000/year and another $2-3000 from web design and illustrating jobs on the side), and a little family (wife and two kids).

Little did I know my answer would be an ancient chinese secret:http://www.break.com/index/least-popular-martial-art.html

After selecting a specific post from 'My post' if I am not logged in it prompts for User ID and password. clicking Login takes me to the Forum home page (or the Forum Index) instead of the specific forum conversation I was looking at before logging in.Are the above issues at all or am I missing something?