That tells me that many a Guru went from Investing in Real Estate to selling How to's on Real Estate Investing and learned their marketing skills from Internet Marketing Gurus like Frank Kern who did in fact create and market the e-book on "How to teach your Parrot to talk.

If you don't have a written lease, the state and local laws will define some standard terms.If you're only month-to-month, and the owner is unwilling to give you a longer lease, then you may be out a month or two after the closing, if the property sells.

It CAN be done, but it's a different skill set.

Plus, I've already run my own small business (in marketing) for 12 years now.It does seem, however, that this business is full of property managers who provide poor service (or no service), or who perhaps don't have the skills or desire to manage properties professionally or to run a small business.

I really want to flip houses, and I am a skilled carpenter that can do everything to a house but electrical,plumbing or roofing.

It would be my opinion that unless you could get the non-profit to be co-sign on the lease as a responsible party in the event of non-payment, you are are left with trusting they will pay.Perhaps if they are unwilling or unable to co-sign, you could setup an automatic bill payment with the non-profit...

Given that he apparently now has the CIA after him, do you think he'd consider it worth the risk just to make some money -- especially given that his vast computer skills could certainly earn him a very nice living without the risk of imprisonment or death.Assange is not a dumb guy, and if he just wanted to make some money without contributing to the public good, he could find some much better ways to do so...Of course, that's just circumstantial reasoning on my part, but it makes sense (to me, at least)...I have no proof of his intentions one way or the other, obviously...

The more time you spend the quicker it should happen, but it will depend on your skill, your strategy, how lucky you get and a lot of other internal factors.Good luck.

In my opinion, if my kids haven't purchased their first property by the time they're 18, I'm not doing a very good job of teaching them how to invest (likewise if they haven't started at least a couple businesses by that time).Hopefully they'll have the money from the businesses to be able to afford the real estate, but if not, I'll be happy to supply it.As Jeffrey said, this is how the rich stay rich -- they don't have to pass the money down, but certainly need to instill the right mindset in their children and if that means helping out when the kids are young, so be it.My hope is that my kids will be more skilled at investing by the time they're 25 than I'll ever be (perhaps that's not saying much :)...

I don't think having a job is a bad thing especially if you can learn a skill.