The long term goal is to have enough passive income to be able to have time to donate my time to kids and philanthropy.

So, you'd be okay with foreign countries (say, China) influencing our elections by donating large sums of money to one candidate (or set of candidates)?

As the church is the borrower, there is no need for personal income/tax/credit verification---lending decisions are made in most part by the church's cash flow using one of the two following approaches:- Traditional DSCR approach (common amongst commercial lenders)- Multiple Income approach (giving value to collections, donations and using a multiple ranging from 2 to 4 times the Church's total income as a basis to determine max. loan amount).

I'll see what we can do about the horizontal scrolling issue . . . as for the need to scroll down . . . unless people actually donate to the site (we've had 2 people do so so far, only), we can't remove the banners at the top.

, so we donated it to a charity.

Al, I am new here, but I think you mean to use a "donation for a charitable gift annuity."

That night I decided that I would take the first $1000 of profit and donate it to charity and the next day I had two near full price offers come in.

start a nonprofit, donate property to the nonprofit, write it off as a tax deduction.

Now that the Chosen One knows that you're not giving your fair share Eddie, I'm sure that he'll be in touch for a more substantial "donation".

Joshua,After three day with the new version I must say "I don´t like the new version of the forum".