Because as all cash has said, you can get quite a lot of benefit from selling your own personal residence.If you can't prove that this was your primary residence then I would suggest you read IRS Publication 523.

I have an external hard drive where I back up about once a month and I burn a group of critical folders to cd/DVD every few months and store them in my fire safe box.

There are a few companies online that offer these broad services succesfully because it is quite affordable to promote a business online.

The founding fathers of this country set up our current system of government in such an amzing way because they had the foresight of external threats as well as the internal threat of the abuse of power by members of the American government.

I am quite new and plan to start investing in the near future and am curious how you found the 30% number, where I too can find this and other numbers of importance.

You CAN succeed, just don't quit on yourself before you have the chance...

I think you can especially profit from it if you can lock in loan rates before the July 1 interest rate hike by the fed:http://www.1stmillionat33.com/2006/06/a-strategic-trade-in-this-housing-market/I know some of you are quite risk adverse, but all signs point to interest rates climbing for a long time to come.

I see quite a few them are under corporate entities and they buy it through tax deed sales like in California, Texas, etc.

All in all a great first book for real estate investors.Unfortunately the book lacks quite a few details that you need to actually DO real estate investing... but it is very inspirational all the same.

I spent quite some time there last year.You can probably get some aggressive financing from the local banks as well.100 CLTV!