@Raquel Thomas,To make the @ work, do the following:Hold down the shift key and type @?

Suggesting you begin or continue your RE like most others do, set your RE business up to feed itself rather than shifting assets into that business.As to borrowing from life insurance, short term at 8% can get you one the way, consider flipping until you end up with a rental you want.The other alternative is biting the bullet tax wise from your accounts, that means your required after tax yield will need to be even greater to make up for that cost of money, a rate you may not make.I'd suggest too that you begin saving in other vehicles that don't restrict your funds.

The newer the paint was when they moved in I'd feel more confident of shifting more of the cost to the tenant for damage, as opposed to if it's a 10 y/o paint job you'd have a hard battle to say you as the LL didn't get the full expected life of the paint due to tenant damage.

Great mileage is a must.I'm also trying to decide between automatic and stick shift.

Opened an IRA and started investing in equities around the same time.Ultimately I put the business on hold due to academics and shifted my focus towards other pursuits.

That is part of the reason I've shifted from equities to commodities. :)

Maybe we'll all meet again in 2012 after the earth crust had shifted, or the rupture happened or Sarah Palin is the president. whichever disaster comes first....

I'd love to know how they built their models to generate that rating, but they're not saying.Regardless, you end up with large pools of asset backed debt being highly rated by and purchased by those who don't fully understand the nuances of the underlying asset class -- add in a little bit of "irrational exuberance," and just a small shift in the real estate market can start a domino effect that takes us back to 2008.As they say, only the names have changed...

(I spent today creating different logos that I will probably post for community feedback as part of our selection process.)BP has shifted our thinking into high gear.

He told me of the shifting grounds of the area, and that the foundation of the shopping center (less than 10 years old) is in trouble because of the shifts.