And don't forget that with time, views of "ethics" and "morality" morph, change and in some instances do a 180 degree turn.

I buy and assign or keep, rent, resell properties in highly growing areas or areas that are undervalued.

In my instance I want to buy this one for retirement later and don't want to deal with the mortgage hassle.

I expect inventory in my city to grow or stay flat.

Maybe start off with something small and then grow from there.

Costs for an exchange are minimal (my company charges a total of $695, for instance); it's hard to find a RE deal where taxes won't be at least that much.

As the entity grows, your intent is to market that investment as a product to where investors could receive fixed and secured returns.

What I love about it is that for my ROTH IRA, all the rent checks go back into my ROTH growing tax-free.

I think it's possible, but I think a big factor would be getting a fairly quick start and reaching a critical mass of a few million, at which point I think a lot more options would start opening up to make the money grow faster.

Around here the trend is growing into an 'us versus them' mentality -- the hard-working citizen/homeowners versus the evil greedy landlords.