He was born in Knoxville, but raised in North Augusta, SC after his father took a nuclear engineering job there.

I'm an engineer with a background in finance.Would be great to meet a mentor that could lead me in the right direction so I can get started on the right foot.My goal is buy and hold for rental income--build a portfolio.

You should still very much reap the benefits of leverage with your IRA, but would want to work with your CPA to run the numbers and evaluate the impact of this taxation on your returns.

I would ride my bike beside her as we talked about how our business would run, how we would treat our employees, and how we would use some profits to help the disadvantaged. 20 years later, the dream is still alive!

He's a one man show who's been too busy doing deals to organize his business.My wife was a realtor for a bit, spent some time running a small real estate office.

I don't see any incentive for a realtor to run multiple CMA's for us on a weekly basis, if we are not using them to buy the properties because we are working directly with the homeowners and our cash buyers.I'm sure I'm missing a step or perhaps I misunderstood some aspect of running the numbers.I was under the impression (from our training) that Realtors would have no problem running comparable if we just ask them...but I just don't see why they would spend their time running comparables if they aren't getting compensated.So I'm hoping some investor friendly realtors (preferably in Topeka or Kansas City) can help clarify and answer this question for me.  

I have been offered a short sale on a 4plex, run the numbers and it looks like a good single or double (not a home run) which for me is fine but i have no experience in this area.

I think that runs about 400.

Currently running it on 5 tabs, one for each property then consolodating to a reporting tab for summary results. 

Running out of ideas...