On the non-published ones they try to get the ones that advance or substantially reinforce some legal principle or create new case law.The most frequent ways these veils are pierced are due to fraud, not running it properly (including under capitalization and under insuring) and not filing the annual paper work and paying the annual fees.

Please share any successful principle reduction situation you experienced.

After that first payment, the balance is reduced by the amount of principle in the payment.

As a newbie, I've been under the impression that leveraging is the way to go since having your own money tied up in properties is no different than having them tied up in stocks.

But another wave of older workers may opt for early retirement when they exhaust unemployment benefits late this year or early in 2010, he noted.The ramifications of the trend are profound for the new retirees, their families, the government and other social institutions that may be called upon to help support them.On top of savings ravaged by the stock market decline and the loss of home equity, many retirees now must make do with Social Security benefits reduced by as much as 25% if they retire at age 62 instead of 66."

I also got very lucky and pulled this chunk of money out before the stock market crash.

If there was enough interest, we could add a trading/stock market forum to off topic . . .

I think we will see a bull run here on commodities and am trying to find good stocks to leverage that.

No, in fact it will often raise them.Both here and on 3 other sites I see people contemplating 1031 exchanges when they barely have enough gain to justify the expense of a facilitator and the extra acquisition costs.For the record my income tax return for the past 12 years has had all of the following, just about every year for most items.W2 income, 1099 consulting/sales incomeInterest income, including interest from seller financed loans,Recapture of depreciationRental income, and expenses and depreciation on rentals pptyLT cap gains from sale of long held rentalsST cap gains from flipsSub S corp income from my sales company401k reductions, SIMPLE reductionsOffice in house expenses, loads of mileage for business travel and other self-employed business expeneseDividends from stocks and mutual fundsDespite all of this carp I feel confident, because I closely review the return and question the CPA that if I wanted I could purchase TurboTax and do it myself.

Everyone has a different risk tolerance and not everyone is cut out for this business, you have to figure out if you are.One time a stock market investor was speaking to the billionaire JP Morgan and asking for advice.