The public often overlooks the value technology plays in widening the gap of income inequality.  

This weekend, I'm participating in a FinTech hackathon at ATDC (startup incubator at Georgia Tech) [http://atdc.org/atdc-news/advanced-technology-deve...The idea is a group of software developers work through the weekend, to come up with a new product.

My listing is still too new for a continuous and solid booking over winter but I'm sticking to my Vacation Rental game for the year and re-evaluating in Nov. to see if it would be a better strategy to M2M the spare rooms or not.The choice for the Vacation Rental over the Roommate situation for me was all dependant on me working from home.

My background is in technology, project management, and Internet marketing; I'd be happy to help someone with my expertise in those areas as part of a mentor / learning partnership.Thanks in advance!

Yes, it is sometimes 2X the interest rates of conventional, but the freedom creativity and and innovation makes up for all the hassles and delays you get with bank lending.  

I can easily make a strong argument that NY real estate could fall over the next decade (high taxes, new technology, quality of life issues, etc).  

We really don't have a great system right now for the rentals though I know I need it, seems the hardest part of that for me is the work order mechanism.... right now my go to guys barely operate a cell phone let alone a computer or technology that could help me out. 

Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.You probably spend too little time studying the most successful, innovative and profitable ideas people in other industries use to grow and prosper.Yet, if you start focusing on other industry’s success practices, you’ll be amazed at how easily you can adapt these ideas to your own business situation.Suddenly, you’ll see significantly better ways to produce significantly better results from the same time, manpower, effort, activity, and capital.Vision isn't easy.As a result, most people let the opportunity of a lifetime slip through their fingers & live to regret it; but in this case I could make it easy for you to Not let this one slip away so that you can take advantage of this unique opportunity with zero risk.Instead, you need to see the overlooked opportunities that are all around you and act on the vast sums of untapped income and unclaimed success just waiting to be harnessed.In a recessionary economy like this, some 30 million people could be out of work -- they lost their jobs, got put on shortened work week.Millions will be (or are, right now) aggressively looking for business opportunities they can purchase or start.Though most of them don't have a lot of cash to invest, they still need income, they need work, they need productive activity that makes them money and keeps them feeling worthwhile.I believe there’s not one business owner or startup I’ve ever met in North America (and probably the world) who couldn’t, who shouldn’t broaden their perspective and think about how to grow yourself a small or large business empire.And that can mean nothing more than multiplying the size of your current business many times through external leveraged buyout acquisition activities.Or it can mean multiplying it through a roll up. 

I think it's awesome to figure out innovative ways to work guidelines to your advantage, but I don't see this one as workable. 

I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing blogging right now, as there is something on HBO right now called "Cannibal Cop," but something has been bothering me today as I begin my search for a small portfolio lender in my area.The innovators in finance, some of the great minds of our time have lost the trust of the public for so many different reasons, not the least of which is that, on the whole, they gave up on common sense.Bill Gates wrote an article discussing the globalization of the economy where he pointed out that  (you'll excuse me if I butcher his words through paraphrasing) the third world countries on this planet are often mistakenly thought of as essentially being void of financial activity.