I think it would be tough to be in student housing right now.

Collections are already becoming tough (and expected to get worse in coming months) paired with historically high unemployment.

Hey @Alex Keedy - it's tough to get over the hump and feel completely comfortable/feel like you're ready to invest.

@Neil McCartyIf you are self-employed (i.e. active self-employment earned income separate from your w-2 income) with no full-time w-2 employees, you can set up a Solo 401k and then rollover your 401k funds from your former employer 401k and/or non-Roth IRA.You could then take a loan of up to 50% of the balance not to exceed $50,000.

On the blogs (tough because I can't narrow it down to one but here are a few of my favs though there are others who have great blog articles): Sterling White, Brandon Turner's typing beard, Scott Smith

What a powerful moment, one you can recall in the future to keep you going when it gets tough! 

Your sales background might help if you go into wholesaling and want to cold call annoyed people all day, but otherwise smart investing isn't really much about sales, its analytical and requires a tough skin and a sort of hunter's mindset. 

That means that you will probably have a tough time getting the numbers to work.

His advice all boils down either to treating your employees and contractors like absolute garbage in the hopes that they give you a cheap price, or repeating really asinine, useless stuff like "when you have to choose between a high price and a low price for the same work, you choose the low price!" 

Since I will not take any of the profits out of the business (reinvest), are some owner/employee of an S-Corp taking a salary in the start-up years?