As a quasi government agency they can ask for verifications that you will never know about and at closing the borrower signs docs authorizing disclosures, lots of ways to check;Mailing address at post office, utility company, motor vehicle registration, insurance docs, bank account even your employer can report, credit cards, other debtors and more...And it's not just fannie and freddie, but any financial regulator can pull a compliance audit, state banking authorities, FDIC, CFPB, Comptroller of Currency....etc.What constitutes a residence?

Right now there is a lot of greed with gold and thus I would shy away from it.All of the above of course is considering gold as an investment vehicle.

There is a thing called reasonable suspicion or in the case of a vehicle, furtive movements.

I understand these vehicles banks and brokerages have created.

Moneypenny, I wouldn't rather buy a Honda or Toyota, I would rather buy American, if they had the longevity and the reliability of the Japanese vehicles.

Upon reflection, I just realized that I LIVE in a 'bad' neighborhood.Here are the stats: frequent drug dealing and even more frequent drug use; occasional home invasions; frequent burglaries; frequent night muggings; frequent drive-by armed robberies; vehicle thefts; frequent property damage; monthly shootings; rapes and attempted rapes; assaults; and so on.Where do I live?

A multi-member LLC is generally a stronger asset protection vehicle than an S-Corp.

I only will go into vehicles that have Market and Rent analysis that shows a strong ROI.It is my understanding that investing with low or no money down is achieved with partners who have the funds but do not have time to do the leg work of finding the deals.  

A good way to figure out what to do is to write down what you are and are not comfortable with doing, and you'll be able to cross a lot of investing vehicles off your list. 

I pose this question, because, with real estate being one of the few wealth building vehicles, I find myself asking, "Am I the only one that benefits from it?"