For another thing, government intervention (that just seems to keep coming up) often has exactly the opposite effect.

I am scheduled to close on a property next month from Trada and no longer qualify for the loan since I am self-employed.

There's really only one rehab/flip market right now and that's rehabbing rental property to flip to rental property investors which means COST EFFECTIVE rehabbing - not pretty rehabbing.

I have the drive, passion, creativity, and persistence and I know how to effectively leverage my resources. 3 years later...I am still a talker and not a doer.

I want to buy more homes, but I'm self employed now and have been dumping any money I do have into financing my new company.A lot of people have told me to walk away from these homes but I see profit in all of them, and I feel like I have a foot in the door.

While it is effective for building a mailing list, it sends me running immediately.

I am a big fan of NOLO Press self help law books.

From what I have read though if you employ solar and wind power generators then you are pretty much set, because if its not sunny then its likely stormy which means more wind :)Basically the civilization systems include everything you need to live a civilized life on an island, are completely self sufficient (you could remove the generator if you didn't mind the occasional black out), and again not as expensive as one would think, especially with the "go green" attitude really coming into play now a days, you may even start to see these kinds of systems becoming available to the rural population, and as economics dictates, the more widely available something becomes, the lower the price tends to be.Just thought I would throw what I know about islands out there for everyone.

Its not a hype session, its an honest to god technical manual about how to do business in commercial real estate effectively.

All it does is make them look like self-righteous jerks, running other people down.Generalized complaints about the lack of education in this country that are not directed at a specific poster aren't included in the above rant.