Giving someone money to go buy real estate, forming a JV, helping make business decisions or guaranteeing a loan, for example, and expecting a return on your money is perfectly compliant with the law as you are playing an active role in the investment.

The next 4 weeks are going to be critical how this plays out and I really hope the Federal will step in soon enough placing some kind of debt relief program to help us all.   

Its a marketing play and you have to put a LOT of feelers out to find the leads and land the deals.  

To me that over a 10year play, especially if the housing market tanks with the stock market.

We will have to see how this plays out in the markets starting tomorrow.

The markets reacted quickly and down nearly 30%.There are other lagging behavioral factors in play that are not immediately recognizable.

I think it may be hard to get a good tenant at the moment, I would suspect most current renters will be staying where they are for the moment and those that don't may be just playing the system since they know they can't get evicted for some time.

Not really a value add play but know this, buyers will expect a working roof with some lifespan, so this is likely a necessity but if on a limited budget to invest in repairs, skip this and either give a credit at close or do it once in escrow.2.

Hello,      i've been playing around at getting into real estate investing for a few years now. and done thinking about it. i'm going to take the plunge!

The tangible property cap v. expense doens't come into play yet.