You open yourself up to a lot more federal regulations.

-Steven the Tax GuyYour guide to IRS laws, rules and regulations.

These days, the broker runs a pool and a bunch of us have money in that pool and he makes loans from it.If you're doing it on you own, start with verifying the regulations governing what you're doing. 

 hello BP members I have some  questions and I will appreciate any information you may provide,I'm planning to buy a property in Raleigh NC, doing some research on the web, I find out the town plans to do some modific...

Hi Chad,I would suggest that you make sure to educate yourself, learn the environment and the language of investing first and foremost.

The right person in that environment can teach you a lot about determining ARV and repair costs. 

That's the beauty of the 2012 change in regulations; it made general solicitation legal (again), meaning you can put up a website and post your deals on social media and just get rolling doing online what has historically been the mandated domain of the in-person world.

Some thoughts: Dry indoor mold is more dangerous than wet indor mold, since it is airborne much more easily.People become extremely ill in a toxic mold environment.

Couple those goals with the inappropriate structure of insuring deposits (mispriced). the opaque accounting used for financial institutions, the ability of financial institutions to "innovate", or as one of my college professors puts it "loophole mine" the regulatory structure and regulations themselves and the FDIC's role becomes a Hurculean task.Pulling back to 30,000 feet and most observers would realize that there are a lot of players and a lot of poor incentives and other factors that share the blame for this recent crisis.

Originally posted by Joe A:Why would you want to own debt locked in for 30 years in rising interest rate environment?