They agreed the firm needed to cut its bullish bets on mortgage bonds.The Senate report alleges that Goldman then undertook a multibillion dollar series of trades to hedge its bullish bets by selling mortgage-related trades to allegedly unsuspecting investors.

A car may also be excluded as well as tools of a trade needed to earn a living.If you really need to know the facts in this specific case, check the bankruptcy filing.

Are you willing to trade money for time?

If you're interested in the training aspect of a brokerage, your best bet is probably to start at one of the larger companies -- Keller Williams, Re/Max, etc -- as they tend to have the budgets necessary to provide new-agent training as well as on-going training.Of course, the reason they have those budgets is that they take a very large percentage of your commissions on each deal (up to 60%).Also, they may not provide training in areas most interesting to investors -- short sales, flips, wholesaling, etc.So, it's a trade-off...

Very funny:E-Trade Baby Loses Everything

It's written like a walkthrough of real estate deals.It starts with understanding the financial side of it all, then looking for the first property and motivated seller, acquiring the starter house. then renting it out for a few years, renovating it and trading it into a larger property from a motivated seller, and so on.

If I buy a thousand shares of XYZ trading at $2, hey if it runs up to $3 then I just made $500 bucks.

now, i walk a property with my main contractor..between him and myself, i know what i'll have to spend..if i'm not sure, as noted in another thread, i'll bring in the specialist of that trade to give me a hard quote (such as foundation, plumbing, etc.)

As you can imagine, combining the discounted gift card idea with 10% coupons leads to HUGE savings.Another idea that I have implemented is to buy a Macy's $500 gift card for say, $350-$380, then go back to Macy's and trade it in for ten (10) $50 gift cards (or 20 $25 gift cards).

But you need to be a licensed contractor first, ...False.Originally posted by josh larsen:...which you should be if you're working on your own rental property anyway....Maybe true, if you are doing work that requires a licensed trade (electrician or plumber).