The time, expense, and human resources devoted to complying with the tax code would all reduce the productive capacity of the economy.The price of everything would have to be raised at every level of production to cover the cost of income taxes: The farm supply store employees, the farmer, the grain silo operator, the miller, the baker, the bread wrapper manufacturer, the grocer, and the transportation workers at every step in the process would all have their income and payroll taxes covered by the higher price of bread.

The supply will be there for driverless taxis.

Hi, my name is Corbyn Doyle and my wife and I live in central OKC.We are totally new to REI, and have come to this site looking for helpful knowledge in assessing a couple of deals that have been offered to us in our neighborhood.They are both owner-financed deals on rental properties just down the street from us (one is a duplex and the other a duplex with two garage apartments).Both deals have kind of fallen in our lap (we weren't looking for investment properties) because of our friendships with the two owners of the properties (a different owner for each property, unrelated and unknown to each other).We basically need to know (1) what kind of return on investment we could expect from the properties (given certain known variables) and (2) what sort of pitfalls to look out for in owner-financing.Thanks for any help you can provide!

My thought is the fundamentals of silver have never been better short supply and heavy demands and the Chinese have increased there purchases 500% in the last few years.

J Scott is correct, there's just too many variables to give you a quick answer.

I don't care what type of deal I do as long as the profits are large enough.My 1st deal is a little 980 sf house I just picked up for the site value in an area with more demand than supply.

But there are a lot of variables and obviously not every buyer who is paying more than me is losing money.

I used to sell insurance and can tell you that there are a lot of variables involved.

The basics of a good real estate investment seem unchanged at the core: location, population growth, neighborhood demographics, supply and demand, surrounding amenities, etc.

They have specific researchers called "research analyst" that do nothing but put this stuff together.There are commercial data companies that supply the info that charge a bunch of money.The key is if the info Is going over a macro level or a micro market.