I am no longer sitting on the fence, sitting and thinking and pontificating about how wonderful life would be investing in real estate.

I can't wait to just run my own life someday and not have to deal with all this B.S. other companies put you through.

There are very few disallowed investments -- collectibles, coins, life insurance.

Note that some income might be best run through a different entity so that you can provide company benefits to employees (medical, dental, vision, auto, life insurance, pension).John Corey

I am 36, married with 2 kids, and have realized that I need more out of life than a boring 9-5 job that gives me no joy.

These are things that you will encounter as you bring the home back to life by turning on the utilities and should pad your expenses for them.

But when it all comes down to it only you can decide where to go next for only you know what you want in life and what to do next!

What else is going on in your life as this is the new member introduction area?

I have found there is no substitute for real life training.

The main problem that all of these Manhattan style high rise condos have is that the developers appear to be under funded and unestimated the pent up demand from one to two years ago.They marketed their condos at say $500 per sf only to find out that in reality their actual costs to build were in the $800 to $900 per sf range.So they back out of most of the projects.