More than 20.7 million businesses didn't have employees in 2006, but they generated more than $970 billion in total revenue, according to a new Census Bureau report.

Books are great to get you motivated enough to take action, but respect that this is a profession that people spend years perfecting.The best way to learn on a deal is to go in as a minor partner (put in your $20k or offer to do the property management) and then learn everything you can.

If you can't control the spending, more income doesn't help a bit.The New York Times ran a piece last week talking about how painful a $500K salary cap would be to the NY bankers.

For example, if you have $100K to spend on real estate.

Let's also give credit to Congress for giving a whole bunch of money to housing counseling groups like ACORN in this Housing Bill (8/2008) -- a subject of much maligning last week when ACORN was set to receive any income from the 700 billion dollars we are dumping into Wall Street.

You can buy one dirt cheap on e-bay if you don't want to spend the money for a new one.

Just look at the crap terminology we get out of Washington where they pretend spending is an investment.

Spend the bucks on a good attorney and CPA who are familiar with the type of deal you are trying to take down.

I'll have to spend some more time looking around in there.

Very early this morning I got up to spend a little time at the range.