This is why BP's stock price went up after the announcement of this 20 billion escrow fund.

No, I have no stock in Insta-hang, but I just saw an ad on TV for the little gizzmo that drives in pins in walls to hang pictures.I required the use of pins in my units for years, I showed them how to drive or press them in at an angle to hang stuff.

What if, just for the principle of it, the buyer decides to sue you just to tie up your property for 6 months or longer.

Or, I'll buy (do buy) stocks and bonds.

It's the trash and treasure principle, In most instances there will be someone interested in your property.

Bill - if you have a lot of retirement funds and you are wanting to allocate some to RE... that is good... but if you only have 100,000 invested for retirement you might want to invest it in stocks and use non-retirement funds for RE investing.

I started about a month ago putting my savings into stocks, and I have a strategy in mind that will probably be a nice boost.

I used the stock white cabinets from the depot in my last rehab.

As for analysis, even if you cannot invest in properties at the moment, nothing keeps you from practicing your analysis skills (just like people simulate trading stocks to learn).

I don't have any credit, but I also will graduate debt-free, so I am that much further ahead in that sense.I started "seriously" saving and investing my money around August when I opened a Roth IRA and started putting money in it every two weeks to invest in stocks, an index fund, and recently a couple of REITs.