welcome melissa...i believe you'll find a few others on there from your island...looking forward to your contributions

He calls for government-sponsored personal retirement accounts, with the government making contributions only for the poor, the unemployed and people with disabilities.Without drastic reform, Prof.

There is a mention of details on an exhibit, of initial contributions by members (me) to the LLC yet the exhibit doesn't contain that information.

I take a different approach, but I'm more of a risk taker than most of who have contributed to this thread.I would move 150K + rehab costs of that HELOC to a high interest bearing account (like a Money Market so that you can write checks against the account).

Don't rush to get into business with good friends - unless you each have something unique to contribute that the other ones don't.

I thank you and anyone else who will contribute to my learning process as so I can avoid the most common mistakes and try to keep my wealth intact by preventing rookie mistakes from happening.

Perhaps they can be coaxed to contribute $$ in order to be on the board.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed - Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA.

I'm a new member and new investor in southern California.Looking forward to learning from the community and eventually being able to make useful contributions to the discussions here.

You have been contributing to the site for a long time.