Over the past 10 years of investing in Real Estate I have gotten more and more frustrated with the utility bills and waste generated from the tenants in my buildings.I have since worked closely with a micro wind-turbine manufacturer out of California and have really concentrated on making the idea of having GREEN power & GREEN reuse on my buildings a reality.Well, about 4 months ago, I joined an idea competition on a website called IDEABLOB, hosted by a credit card company.

So chances are probably no better than 1:500 for me to get a random buyer to make contact with me once they are in town.Now to the online world.First of all one has to be able to offer a visually pleasing site and then back up the good design with functionality.

"guru" programs:Scott Scheel, Ray Alcorn, Sherry Watson (grant$), David Lindahl...etc Seems many Pros/Vets are critical of these gurus (which I can appreciate and I'm thankful for the warnings) but most of the sites seem to be "centered" around driving Products or events... or at least they are openly an advertising platform.Many of these sites are designed with the sole intent of promoting Guru programs.

This tax is designed to protect tax-paying businesses from unfair competition. 

I'm an engineer by trade and do HVAC design work.

@Joey Palmer the pictures are great, but I'd bet a lot of money that you only lasted 18 hours because of the impeccable design choices you guys made!

I also think it is important to pay attention to the numbers, you need to decide what numbers you are going to concentrate on.

These are "weasel clauses" designed to back out of a contract and offer you the seller little to no compensation in return. 

Hi @Oswald Oswald, I live in the Bay Area and understand that your purchasing power of about $850k will get you into a condo/townhouse and probably not a SFH - I'm assuming that's why you are focusing on the condo/townhouse.Yes, purchasing a townhouse in the East Bay is not a bad idea as long as it is designated a PUD on the title.

I have very little faith in the 4% rule, because a misspent youth taught me again and again and again that dice have no memory and I see more and more people investing in broad-based index funds every year.One of the few truths I know about the stock market is that when investment is concentrated in a specific sector of the market, manipulating that sector becomes a very profitable endeavor.So what would it take to manipulate the value of VTSAX holdings?