I would confirm that they are insured and bonded as well as hold client funds in a Qualified Trust or Qualified Escrow account.

For those of you in the South Carolina/ Georgia coastal areas, do you purchase a termite bond to cover your buy and hold rental properties?

Ranieri often crossed paths with another financial innovator who was trying to get a new product off the ground: Michael (Bilkin) Milken, the father of the modern junk-bond market.

Please keep this in mind, ALL investments --- whether the investment vehicle is stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. ---  are weighed/evaluated on a Risk vs.

You'll make a lot more money likely fixing teeth than grinding teeth selling real estate I think.   

@Ben Leybovich You could take your table winnings and divide it into thirds;Then put one third into gold (hedge inflation)Put one third into tax free municipal bonds (tax free income)and put the last third in to Berkshire Hathaway stock, Class A, not the Baby Berks .

We are licensed and bonded and have passed FBI background checks.  

I have been educating myself on tax liens, SFH and multi unit investing so as to diversify away from my current stock / bond allocation -- thinking "he who is willing to get hands dirty makes more money."

I second Taz's saying that unemployment is much higher than reported, although I thought it was around 15% but I did not look through the latest numbers-either way it's higher than they report on the news and it will be pushing 20% soon enough.Here's my investment advice for you to think about: (regarding stocks & bonds as there's plenty of good RE advice here) Currently what the government wants is for you to do 1 of 2 things: 1.

Only after you cut your teeth working hands-on on a few deals in your backyard, then and only then would I even consider investing out of state.I followed this path, local first then out of state, and even though I was well experienced before looking out of state, I still had MAJOR problems ...