No, I have no stock in Insta-hang, but I just saw an ad on TV for the little gizzmo that drives in pins in walls to hang pictures.I required the use of pins in my units for years, I showed them how to drive or press them in at an angle to hang stuff.

The guy replied, "Is this about the dead chick in my kitchen?"

Or, I'll buy (do buy) stocks and bonds.

(I'm assuming the excess capital that could be used is invested in something else (like lending) and isn't just sitting there being dead money.)

We are now looking at acquiring the adjacent 8-unit building to push the other end of the tenant population (drug trade, dead beats) a little further down the street {my partner jokes that we should buy a different building at the other end of the street - as it would be cheaper - and explicitly target the other end of the local tenant population ...

Bill - if you have a lot of retirement funds and you are wanting to allocate some to RE... that is good... but if you only have 100,000 invested for retirement you might want to invest it in stocks and use non-retirement funds for RE investing.

I started about a month ago putting my savings into stocks, and I have a strategy in mind that will probably be a nice boost.

I used the stock white cabinets from the depot in my last rehab.

Many "Guru's" will say real estate will be dead by all the big/private firms buying into the real estate market , eventually flooding it where they hold all the inventory and control the market.

As for analysis, even if you cannot invest in properties at the moment, nothing keeps you from practicing your analysis skills (just like people simulate trading stocks to learn).