After a stunning collapse on Friday (close to a 50% fall) due to exposure in shaky securities linked to subprime mortgages, it was reported today that Bear Stearns, one of the Big 5 Investment Banks, will be acquired by a dismal $2.00/share by JPMorgan Chase.The deal prices the bank at an almost unimaginable $236 million dollars.

After all the nonsense private lenders dealt the past 5-7 years with second position and being cut out of their money on the shortsale....this security makes them much more comfortable.

How about management, advertising, entity maintenance, insurance, evictions, setouts, legal fees, damage done by tenants (in excess of the security deposit), lawsuits, utilities (at least during vacancies), capital expenses (not technically an operating expense), etc, etc, etc?

Sounded like a pretty good course, you can flip deals to him & split profits 50/50 or negotiate forbearance packages with banks yourself if you choose not to flip deals to him.

That woman is on social security, on section 8, and uses food stamps.

You have at least 5 unopened packages of white, walmart miniblinds waiting to be installed in the next property.4.

A 5% return PER MONTH is pretty decent and if the only thing you are worried about is PV (i.e. your investment is secured somehow) I wouldn't move it at all...

(See my recent post about this).The Background on the Active Real Estate Exception:Rental real estate, in many cases, is held to provide financial security to individuals with moderate incomes.

The seller can call the bank and give you authorization to negotiate your offer once it is submitted without giving you authorization to look at all their financial info that they have to submit in a short sale package.

Anyone with earned income (or an existing IRA) can open a self-directed IRA (SDI) and invest in real estate, loans secured by RE, business ventures, and many other vehicles.