If not, your rental income would dramatically reduce and this is already low on the cash flow.I prefer buying and holding in areas where I can expect better future appreciation and better ease of liquidating, but that is just my personal biz model.

As Mike said, we don't do ourselves any favors when the govt steps in and rewards bad behavior or a bad business model by bailing companies out.

If you cold call, be ready to answer any detailed questions they have such as what amount of money your looking for and how it is secured, what will be the rate of interest they earn, and what is your business model.

He is also leasing the home from me for 3 months while I find a renter and use it as a model for new buyers for the new build that is going up.

You could run some econometric models to try to predict what will happen with inflation in the future, but if you knew that you could easily make millions betting on currency futures instead of going through the REI brain damage exercise.

It seems to me that it may be the case that health insurance just won't work in a for-profit or free market model.

I'm just starting 6 models!

Curious what folks here think about this:

http://newsok.com/property-owners-outraged-by-guthrie-businessmans-dealings/article/3466790?custom_click=pod_lead_business

Personally, I couldn't imagine ever doing it (I ju...

What I have done is established my LLC, created a buyer webpage, created social marketing pages, bought ads, bought a new webcam for video blogs and added Wordpress for written blogs to drive traffic to my site, and setup all my business numbers/fax for marketing.I suppose I could just start putting out all my signs and direct mail without the buyers list I am looking for, but I guess I kind of want to have my business in line with the business plan I set up for it.

Am I off base in assuming that the Fannie/Freddie secondary market model is terrible and needs to be abolished post haste?