Houston Real Estate Highlights in October Single-family home sales continued their post-Hurricane Harvey rebound as volume rose 7.5 percent year-over-year with 6,381 units sold;Single-family home sales remain 2.8 percent ahead of 2016’s year-to-date volume;Total property sales increased 6.6 percent with 7,614 units sold;Total dollar jumped 10.8 percent to $2.1 billion;The single-family home median price rose 3.9 percent to $226,491, which represents an October high;The single-family home average price increased 2.7 percent to $285,858, also the highest level for an October;Single-family homes months of inventory grew year-over-year to a 3.9-months supply, but is down from a 4.3-months pre-Harvey peak – the result of a surge in consumer demand for housing;Townhome/condominium sales rose 5.8 percent, with the average price down 1.1 percent to $195,393 and the median price down 3.1 percent to $153,000;Leases of single-family homes rose 13.6 percent with the average rent up 2.8 percent to $1,776;Volume of townhome/condominium leases jumped 34.8 percent with average rent up 2.9 percent to $1,533.HAR still encourages anyone who has housing available for temporary occupancy (up to 12 weeks) to please post it on our Harvey Temporary Housing page at www.har.com/temporaryhousing to provide housing to those in need.http://www.har.com/content/mls/?

The Solo 401(k) has advantages over an IRA, but not everyone will make use of those differences.In order to qualify for a Solo 401(k), you must be self-employed with no full time employees. 

@Yonasan SchwartzThe following IRS website pages contain good information regarding the prohibited transaction rules. https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/retirement-plan-investments-faqshttps://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-tax-on-prohibited-transactionshttps://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-072-011

One of my employees had water in his basement and I went there to help in wet vac it all up to help him out.

I've worked at New American Funding since Feb 2012 they treat their employee's right and borrowers right as far as I've seen.

Question for employees at BP or anyone else that knows the answer to this.

Is there a major factor that employees 5,000 plus people?

If they are not a member and are contributing work and do not have a percentage of the company then they would be an employee of the company and be paid a wage...

Does that mean employees(W2) if there work doesn't offer 401K option, will have to stick with Roth IRA or Traditional IRAand stick with max contribution of 5.5K/year.

You will need to be self-employed (or own a business with no full time non-owner employees) before you can create a Solo 401k plan.IRAs are subject to UBIT for investments into an active trade or business and are also subject to UDFI for debt-leveraged investments.Solo 401ks are subject to UBIT for investments into an active trade or business but are generally not subject to UDFI for debt-leveraged real estate investments.