In order to get your total "net worth" you would add up ALL of your assets  (real estate, stocks, bonds, cash, etc,) and subtract out the debt (credit cards, mortgage, student loans, car note, etc.) in order to get your overall net worth position.

I have saved all my nickels, and invested into stocks and am ready to use them to fund my business. though would still have to explore the OPM route, excluding banks. 

@ryan Although there is a huge housing stock of multi family in the western and northwestern burbs of Chicago in DuPage & Cook there is hardly ever any deals that will allow your numbers to work with that approach.  

Granted that we'd been doing the multi-family thing for a few years, but my point is that if you show a legitimate deal to people, it looks a hell of a lot better than the crappy 4-5% they can get on preferred stock dividends, or the .5% they can get on a CD or something.  

I am relatively knowledgable about the stock market side of investing, not so much in the REI though.

And enough people were doing that that the price of those raw materials remained high.Or if you prefer a real estate analogy, the Empire State Building was begun in 1930, AFTER the stock market crashed.  

Something to keep in mind though, with FHA loans, the law requires that property to be owner occupied or a principle residence, meaning, you have to live there or you will not qualify.

I'd like to hear about them.Here's a few that top my charts:Real Estate Finance: Risks and Opportunities by Peter Linnerman Principles of Real Estate Syndication by Samuel FreshmanInvestment Analysis For Real Estate Decisions by Gaylon Greer and Philip Kolbe (bought that one for .01 cent on Amazon.

I wouldn't put that much stock in assessed value because, depending on the jurisdiction, assessed value and market value are not necessarily the same thing.

Much like other forms of investing with guidance such as the stock market what you buy and how you buy it is an extremely personal decision and one person's great investment can be another person's bad investment depending on the situation and how well you can sleep at night with that investment over a 5 year time frame or more.