Purchase price: $171,500 Cash invested: $20,000 Sale price: $216,000 Sold for full asking price in 4 days - $24,500 Profit in two months!

Can play the game in the past, you must look forward.

Purchase price: $250,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Purchased two houses on one lot for $250,000 at 2.5% interest.

I believe I can handle one or two on my own but then would want to transition to a property manager.

How common is it for two individuals to go jointly on a mortgage for investment purposes?

Investing in Oil and Gas is somewhat of a gamble.The way that I see oil and gas investments have one of two likely outcomesA) Lose all or close to all your moneyB) Get 10X your investmentTo answer your question you can potentially do a roth conversion and offset it with oil and gas investments.

Even though my wife is executrix, she shared the estate with two siblings and one thing she had to do before proceeding is she has to obtain a letter from her siblings that they had no objections to how the assets are distributed.

They always say that there are only two things that are certain in life - death and taxes.

@Dominique Guinnane - Comparing a permanent rate buy down (standard rate buydown) vs a temporary buydown are two different scenarios. 

I actually host Investor Happy Hours every two months or so and am having one this May.