The NFL, in conjunction with local law enforcement, raided vendors at Traders World Flea Market in Monroe Ohio and seized over 2,100 fake NFL jerseys.

I am a trader first and a property person second.

For ex, I know that I have to depreciate my bldg value on a 27.5 year schedule, no way to accelerate that.

As a professional trader, I am expecting to have a pretty good salary, so most of the REI business although a joint venture, will be on my fiance's part full-time.

For ex, with stock investing, I can look and see that 80% of passive funds underperform actively managed funds due to fees/expenses over long periods of time.

For ex.

People need to be careful about what they call themselves, an Investment Specialist is a backroom trader for a listed stock brokerage firm.

Over the past year, studying investing in my spare time has become a very active hobby; I day trade forex in small amounts, buy and hold stocks (dividends + selling occasional covered calls), and have been trying to in general be very frugal and conservative (no cable TV, negotiated down all my living costs, got a roommate in to cover the mortgage) and put away a very large percentage of my income.

You can certainly trade rent for shoveling though you are going to have REALLY unhappy tenants if their cars are still snowed in, now matter the reason. 

They may trade real estate or even other goods towards real estate.