I am wondering IF it is possible to try and strike a deal where I can assume their mortgage(if it makes sense) and they rent my apartment(potentially at a reduced rate), essentially trading places.

Maybe even make enough to trade the Camry up to a Lambo.

That quest ended me reading Flash Boys, books of Barton Biggs, Reminiscences of a Stock Market Operator, books of Tony Robbins Market Wizards, Tower of BASEL, tRADING IN THE ZONE, The Millionaire Mind, think and grow rich, youtube movies of "Wall Street", Boiler Room, Enron, Epic Trader, Meltdown, Million Dollar Trader, Barbarians at the gate, Margin Call, Rogue Trader, Floored, The Big Short, Last Days of Lehman & you name it.

Though now he's a director/manager at a large corporation in their int'l trade division.

I have plans to register again the fall for tax consequences for real estate and maybe one or two other courses.

He then also needs to spend more time in the real estate trade/business than anything else.

In a rehab, the CG swings a hamer as well, he takes his hourly/contract price +.The job; plans and specs,it will take 160 hours of labor and unskilled trades at $12 an hour average or 1,920. 60 hours of skilled trades averaging $24.00 an hour or 1,440 for a total of $3,360.00 for labor.Material cost estimated at $24,500.

Being a stock market investor, I would think it might be possible to prudently hedge oil a bit, even partially, by either buying options or investing in an oil ETF (exchange traded fund).

Robert PrechterAs investors we are faced with the consequences of our decisions every single day; however, as my old mentor at Goldman Sachs frequently reminded me, in your life time, you won't have to get more than a handful of key decisions correct - everything else is just noise.

The base money supply since Obama was sworn in has went from 1.2 to 1.8 Trllion.Do the math people.........The key to this game, trade inflated assets for cash, trade the cash for deflated assets