Disadvantage is you get none of the tax advantages of direct ownership, so these are best purchased in a retirement account.5) Continue saving and investing smartly until you reach either $1M in net worth or you earn $200,000/year in income!

Locally We are adding Full solar with whole-home battery EV charging and Smart home compliance for the newest group of Renters who will pay extra for these features.

It is smart to carry a gun in some circumstances, but it brings with it huge responsibilities.

You should fix you first them invest in real estate. 90 percent of the people in this game do not understand the difference between investing and retailing real estate The smart ones in this game invest in income.It is and it is not a great time to try and become a wholesale investor.

Years ago there was Green Peace and others, those radical tree huggers of the time got smart, went to college, and went to work for the EPA, NOAA and at state Departments of Natural Resources.

My statements stand, Sorry this all got off topic, but it was an old thread bumped as it was a smart aXX reference from another thread.

I agree as technology improves we will have to master these skills and diversify.

Initially, the boomers were the stimulus of economic expansion:•1950s -- parents buy new houses and cars, suburbs emerge, and America is King of Production•1960s -- more housing, more cars, college educations, Made in Japan = cheap, Vietnam, shaken values, Johnson's "War on Poverty"•1970's -- the Boomers emerge with jobs, are new consumers -- more housing, international manufacturing becomes more competitive, US corporations locate operations overseas•1980s -- Reagan tax cuts = increased discretionary spending, revenues up, social programs funded, Iron Curtain falls, technology enables global expansion•1990s -- peak Boomer earnings, corporate America dissolves pensions (funding liabilities, regulatory liabilities, increasing PBGIC premiums) and convince Boomers to "control" their retirement with self-directed 401(k)'s, Moore's Law at work in technology, the Internet becomes hostile to profits, emergence of private equity and venture capital on a large scale, increased financial engineering•2000s -- oops, where did the American Dream go?

:roll: Just keep plugging away, smart agents are out there.....but like anything else, it might take 100 phone calls to find one good Agent!

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