In these times of deficit government spending, self directed IRAs are an increasing target because the penalties are so harsh and the subsequent tax windfall is so high for the government.Be careful, my friend.  

If you like constructing a piece of a puzzle and how the government works and functions then listing and selling commercial land for development might work.Rather you want to be an investor, agent, broker whatever it is NOT easy money.

offer would reflect any remediation costs.I found a government website here that listed know meth houses.

The government is cleaning up areas by replacing the top 18" of topsoil, though I still wouldn't live there. 

Personally, I absolutely love Section 8 tenants and receiving paychecks from the government.  

The business model to develop Community Association Manager (CAM) licensing legislation (and other HOA legislation): 1) legislators consult with the Community Association Institute (CAI)) to craft a Bill aimed at mitigating abusive practices of property managers who are the very folks the CAI represents 2) CAI lobbyist and their CAI “dependable” legislators become Bill sponsors 3) the Bill is assigned to Committees with CAI “dependable” legislators 4) the Bill becomes law with little to no home owner input, full of promoting CAI interests, and heavy on fees and costs and processes imposed on CAMs and 5) the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) implements licensing rules highly reflective of CAI efforts but fail to even contain explicit language for CAMs to obey State law or an HOAs governing laws or for CAMs to report observed violation of the law thus ensuring oversight is empty from the home owner’s perspective.

I was pretty pissed when I first found out that the government is using my tax dollars to make other investors rich(which I still don't agree with.)  

:Totally hearsay, but an agent friend of mine said her lobbyist friend said the current bill would die in the house because the house speaker is extremely against it.Interpret at your will.I'd imagine that if you are in the legal industry as part of the firms raking in hundreds of millions of dollars suing builders as a result of this law, you'd make sure to have thorough representation in the governing bodies of Colorado.  

Michael,What "insured" means on those properties, at least I'm pretty sure, is that the property can be backed with a  government loan (i.e., Fannie, Freddie, FHA, etc).  

My income is guaranteed and is tied to the federal government not local market.Not trying to slam you here just saying most people don't look at the bigger picture and when factoring all variables Chicago will beat any A market every time.