After I gift her the max allowable amount is there anyway I would be able to either pay part of the downpayment, or put any more money into it without getting hit with the gift tax, or getting into shady business?

I've got a ruger red label picked out to reward myself when I hit a certain benchmark in my REI.Tim

On the east side, especially in areas that have hard hit by foreclosures, you can buy that house as a REO for maybe $60K, $75-80K all day.

Hit the streets.

He eats too much for any human, and he obviously loves his bong hits.

If that were the case, then all profits, including cap gains would be hit with self empl. taxes.

I am still wet behind the ears on the subject, so I plan on spending the next six months reading and attending meetings of my local real estate investment club (Northern Virginia).

Weird laws and as I remember in Connecticut, because of the lyme disease hitting kids so hard there, they were letting people shoot deer (archery only) out of people's yards in neighborhoods.

We like to try to hit them prior to the NOD going out when everyone is advertising for them.

Go back in history, President elected in times like this are one hit wonders.