If you don't keep an eye on your property managers, they will do things like cut corners on upkeep to make profits look higher and then you will get stuck with a big money repair down the road.Maybe your better bet is commercial property with long term NNN leases.

And then some of the odd actions taken, which appear as smoke screens, like the fed's instituting a new way to calculate CPI that does not factor in 1/2 of the true mass market factors, so to appear that there is little to no inflation.

I bet you can create your own better marketing documents, including pitch book and projections and everything!!

My calculations say we might manage to get back $9-12K out of the original investment, along with the new money and the promised interest.OTOH, there's a real chance the whole mess does just linger and now I've thrown good money after bad.

I'm betting over for my areas I work in and have already seen this happening.

I agree with James and think that your best bet is to take a few months to plan and find the best way for you to invest.

how do i calculate closing costs if i am a buyer and seller in CA?

But most of the time I only buy the once where the money is used for interbank lending rather than betting on movements of a certain underlying (FX, or stocks or index)Bear in mind I am based in China!

I have never sat down and calculated a hard percentage, but I would say I'm right around 50%.The returns I'm earning from real estate are far greater than anything in the stock market.

Your not looking for these tenants to be a tenant/buyer, your looking for them to produce cash flow and your betting that the property value will increase during your option contract.