Personally, I have pretty good idea of how much my professional time is worth (from having been in the corporate world for a long time) and I use that as a baseline.Ultimately, at the end of every year, I do a quick calculation that estimates the number of hours I worked in the real estate business, and multiply that by my hourly "worth", to generate my hypothetical salary that I should have expected to take from the business.I then create my financial statements (most importantly my P&L) that counts that "salary" as an expense and analyzes the success of the business as if I had paid myself that salary.

You pay up front, a monthly management fee, plus hourly flight costs (not counting potential repositioning fees, fuel surcharges, etc).In a jet card program, you pay an upfront cost of around 100k or more , and pay a slightly higher hourly fee and pay as you go.

It is basically the status of being given a direct personal phone line in the old days, and those e-mails get my quick personal attention.Having a commonly used website e-mail address given to everyone, for use by everyone does not meet my criteria for status greater then hot-mail, or GMail and deserving of instant' or greater respect.The thing that counts are the people behind the address, and you get good and bad with both types of e-mail addresses.

But these folks are counting on these companies to continue to exist indefinitely and to have enough money to support their pension obligations.

They to get a lunch and they get time off, who is to say that it has to be done during working hrs.See we have to learn not to focus on the small things and let them determine if they are willing to help or not.Before we even get started we have already defeated the situation.Did not mean to burst the bubble, but Congressmen and Women are Federal workers and look what mess they have us in today.Don't buy into the HYPE.

Believe me, I can count at least 10 local investors of the top of my head who I will NOT do business with because their word means nothing.

If there are a lot of available units, and a soft market, count on making more concessions.

You can avoid making novice mistakes, while learning from someone who knows how to do things legally and with integrity.Everything you’ve ever done in your life counts!

On the other side of the table, I was at $9200/year in taxes on my personal property with a contract purchase price of $426k...not counting the other assessments because it was a new development or the HOA...and this was Union County (Columbus area)...and that was high in my book.

You're in the right place on both counts!