Google has a vested interest to promote your stuff free.It seems to me that posting your properties on your blog and then sharing to g+ is a good way to market.

Take away the expectation of profit and the Howie test fails.1. investment of money due to 2. an expectation of profits arising from 3. a common enterprise which depends solely on the efforts of a promoter or third party.I do understand that notes are considered securities, I believe that they are exempt from the regulation.I am not an attorney, please get advice from one that practices securities law.

They no longer have the promotional rate that I got but should be around 6.

The tax benefits and being able to get into it for cheaper make it highly enticing.

I got a call on a mailing I did from a guy with a condo that is cashflowing close to the 2% rule ($50K and renting at $950) I started looking at comps and see there are plenty that realtors are promoting as "Investor Heaven!".

Many may disagree, but in the beginning I recommend a team of Me, Myself, and I ... those guys may not be the best in the business, but they work hard and work cheap and once they learn a lot you can promote them to management over the rest of the team, who they will know how to hire having previously filled those positions.

@Doug PretoriusA very good point to bring up ... though it's not been part of our personal experience ... yet.We are working on a deal now where the bank is being very enticing with financing terms - if it works, it will be a first for us where the bank has given considerably on financing.

'remarking' promotions.

All I'm doing is promoting a vigilance to our "benefits" over our "bans".Tim

Most people buy way too much because they 'love their family" and do not advocate buying a mutual fund with the difference between term and whole life as it is a silly numbers game to promote other products pushed by ins companies!