I hope to eventually become a well known and sought after luxury home builder in Northern Illinois and I'm looking forward to insightful and intellectual discussions with fellow Real Estate connoisseurs here on BP.  

This document will become part of your business library of intellectual property that you will own.

It was also the center of publishing and an intellectual hub at this time (Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Law Olmsted, Wallace Stevens).

@Andre GillettSure I think all investing is based on gut feeling plus some intellectual calculations plus familiarity with a neighborhood.

Those who look at angel investments all day long get good at it provided they have the intellectual horsepower to grow over time. 

Amit, it all depends on what field you are in your prior day to day jobDo you get intellectual satisfaction from it or is it a drag that you hate itIf it is the latter , since you got 6 months severance try out your passion for short term and see if thats what you want to do rest of your life

It beats the 70% rule by about 1-2%, and I'm excited to see this project through, make some money, learn a whole lot, and have it kickstart more RE dealings.My day-job is in intellectual property, and I'm a part-time realtor, having been licensed for a year and a half.

So when we complain that the intellectually and physically disabled man who has his voucher, SSI, and Medicaid-paid family care all being hijacked by his extended family so that they can all use his one bedroom unit as a crash pad, and a place to get high, and to terrorize the neighbors and the LL, we suddenly find that the agency has "accidentally" not paid their portion, or that it's perfectly acceptable to them that a tenant gives one day's notice that they're moving out, and we wind up not getting paid.We have also had Sec 8 offer to pay us 125% of market value (and in our opinion, probably 150% of market value) to house an enormous immigrant family that lives as if they were still living in the stone age. 

However the most significant contributor to my stress was financial indeterminacy.Now- I run a mortgage business and make 250-300 a year working about 15 hr weeks and am 23 yr old.BUT... being in the mortgage business, for me at least, is not as intellectually challenging as school was.

Intellectually exciting, and great fun to be teaching and mentoring, ...being a role model for students.