When we got any gift money from family, it went into the pot. 

But we're puzzled why some European countries are opposed to us.Unlike most Third World tin-pot dictators (Chavez, Mugabe and many others), Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an incredibly smart and dangerous opponent.

The more cooks in the kitchen the harder it gets for so many reasons.

A Trust can solve mortality issues.Don't count on family picking up the torch, they may not be so inclined or able and frankly, when there is money in the pot, they know they will be benefiting without the brain damage, so why suffer when they have their own dreams?

The landlord bears the burden to prove the rent wasn't paid, rather than the tenant being forced to prove they paid it.Hence many people calling Cook County, CROOK COUNTY.

Read the book by Wade Cook, the Real Estate Money Machine... that's the closest thing to what I do....

For example, the social security system might have been fine if it had been set up in individual accounts and uncle Samantha's fingers had stayed out of it but it became the pot of gold from which all toys came from.

Obviously, smoking pot, snorting coke, agreeing with racist Jeremiah Wright, being friends with the terrorist Ayers, etc... are perfectly ok, you voted for a man who does these things.I am sure if a Tenant Application stated, "I use and sell drugs, associate with terrorists and my wife has been ashamed to be an American" on his application, you would happily rent to him.

I've heard that in Ohio children are raised to be so sexist they are only capable of drawing women in pink dresses cooking in kitchens.

Many realtors might assume in this situation that their realtor work is part of that 50/50...if so, the commissions go back in the pot to split between you.Overall, sounds like you have a reasonable plan.