I like having them do it though so I'm not tempted to put the money to work in long-term deals.The 50 percent guideline includes taxes and insurance already.

My lender only requires 10 percent down, and will take half of that in the form of a car title, piece of land etc.

Also appears that some REITs specialize in farm land.http://www.suntimes.com/business/roeder/3526067-452/farmland-percent-rogers-investment-real.html

This gives you a profit of $280 per month or a 4 percent return.

Your 401k contributions are limited to $49000 on a relatively high percent of your income so 401k benefits are enormous.You or your company can open an IRA or 401k, respectively, thru a company like Fidelity Investments or Schwab.

PM are charging percent of collected rent.

The one huge downfall is that, because everyone is upside down now, you are only targeting aabout 40 percent of the people you used to be able to target.

I try to increase our equity 20 percent annually.

If you go too high, they could find private money, so the lower the rate the longer they are likely to keep that obligation.Check with your agent and see if there is a usury law, the highest legal rate that can be charged, not saying to charge that, just don't go over it.What has been considered a fair rate for years is ten per cent, right now that is high compared to conventional loans, but this is not conventional financing.

Yes Jon, I'm one hundred percent positive that you are right!