Those 70-year old gold teeth seemed for a while to be about to pay off, but along came Mr.

I know direct mail is a particular strategy, but I guess what I'm asking is what should I first attempt to sink my teeth into?

Less houses are being demanded, so demand has shifted to other assets (hint hint, treasury bonds).

You could pull your own teeth with pliers, but wouldn't you rather use a dentist?

If it were me, I might go with 20 percent bonds and 29 percent stocks, and use my "risky assets" money to go into more real estate rentals but that's just a personal thing.

This would then have a profitable IRR.A bond functions in a manner where you invest $100 in P(0) and get it back dollar for dollar in P(x), where x is the maturity or end of investment term.

It's good to do those things even when the tenant is "cooperating," because your new agreements have no teeth unless you have the court behind you.

., a spec project isn't what you want to cut your teeth on.

I am tempted to start taking positions in shorting long term treasury bonds.

Let me put it this way, would you buy a bond from a corporation that tied the return on your bond to the expenses it has contracted for over the period of the bond where the expense could flutuat, where expenses were unknown?