Investors who want the real estate should read this, also, because sometimes their plans go astray and an owner redeems.In Alabama, someone who wishes to redeem their property from a tax sale must pay 12% per year interest on the taxes due at time of sale plus all subsequent years' taxes and interest. 

Here are the things I will work ON: (I will explain each one in subsequent posts under this forum thread)1.

As someone who has owned real estate, stocks and businesses, all I can say is that the analogy used in the original post is flawed, and therefore all subsequent discussions referring back to that analogy are flawed.Owning a non-controlling share of a company (i.e., typical stock ownership) is not analogous to real estate investing. 

Tracing Houston's economic slide is not difficult.

How much are you planning on increasing it in subsequent years?

But, I subsequently obtained a HELOC within $1000 of my original mortgage loan.  

See 2006-2008.What actually happens is you buy more loan for lower return with an innately higher risk of loss due to the higher probability of a slide in equity.  

Your existing degree will open the door and you can slide in.A law degree knocks the doors off, they go flying, you can enter with your arms extended in both directions.

He also want's to slide us an additional $5k without his father knowing to get this deal done.

Deals like these include wholesaling lease options (lease option assignments), sandwich lease options (which I hate), buying homes sub2 and subsequently selling those homes to retail buyers using: mortgage assignments, land sales contracts, deed installments/installment sales, and mortgage wraps.Hence, you're wrong.