Many investment opportunities are simply passed up when we as investors fail to "Think out of the box"!

Matt H, I know you said it seems like people are told to live below their means, that isn't true in my experience, instead they teach you to think about how you are spending your money, how you can cut back so that you can get out of debt and use the extra money to develop passive income streams to get financially free.

There is an assumption (however unfair) that the real estate agent(s) has an unfiar advantage over the average consumer simply by knowledge, training and exposure to information.

The first cut-off for me is NOT RETURNING PHONE CALLS, or taking their sweet time about doing it.

I retired at 52 (actually cut down to 8 hours a week then, fully retired two years later.

I, and my contractor, are fairly certain the tenants overloaded it, as a glass broke and cut the drain line, then jammed and broke the agitator arm.It had to be replaced.

After almost 8 months of learning that I knew nothing about the construction business and another year of being too stubborn to cut my losses I sold the house at breakeven.

A property could have very costly damage that you cannot simply see with the naked eye.All the above are certainly things to watch out for.

Since the exchange is simply a way to postpone tax on a gain, and you have no gain, it would be pointless anyway.Also, you can't exchange your residence, it's your residence.

The only way to make money over the long haul with Casinos is to simply own one.Poker is a good way to make money, because you aren't playing the house, you are playing others.