Like I said if you wish to spend the money on travel expenses, etc. those will be your personal expenses, not expenses of an IRA.Think of it as buying a stock of a company.

Investing, even in stocks/mutual funds/almost anything is very rare, and met with surprise when talked about.

This helps to ensure no passerby's will see inside.Rule number 2, Don't leave any tools onsite overnight.Rule number 3, Not everyone needs a key to the house.Rule number 4, Bring materials as needed, don't stock up the job site with materials.

You'll likely need to disclose on the marketing that you're licensed and include some stock Fair Housing verbiage in the letter.

Hey @Joe Boggin - given those two scenarios, I'd opt for the leveraged property for the following reasons:1 - Mortgage benefits: you're getting principle paydown each month that is essentially forced savings of cashflow.

The kicker here is that you also knocked some principle off that loan, deducted depreciation off the tax bill and may have added 3% in appreciation to the pot.At the end of the day, if you're loaning somebody your $100K and they're good enough to pay you back, then they sure as heck will be making money themselves.I would definitely like to get into lending at some point, however I don't know that 100K is a good starting point.

I can't speak for them personally, but Lowe's and HD appear to stock them...a quick google search will turn up a number of companies which make them.

With a 30 year mortgage, it will take eight or ten years on average to reach the point where you can cancel the insurance.Joseph Zanazan What happens if the current LTV stands around 80% and i want to put money towards principle to bring it down to 78% (or the LTV originally agreed to drop PMI).

I have spent the past 15 years grinding out various parts of my days, nights and weekends honing a stock market strategy that continues to evolve to this very day (minute).

Sitting quietly in the dark and taking stock of where we are is a lot harder - takes discipline.In music, we have notes and we have rests.