So, tighten your seatbelt it's going to be a bumpy ride until the clouds clear out.      

What lies behind that portent and the impact it will have on housing remains to be seen.My prediction: The next 12 months will indeed be quite a ride!

This just needs to be structured in a fashion that both initiate the transaction together and the equity split (say 80/20) is maintained throughout the life of the transaction.Some folks will create a partnership LLC with multiple IRA accounts as members.  

I also started building a list of people who might be economically threatened by my proposed project.Then I started meeting people in a very deliberate fashion, including all the people that would be making decisions and voting on my zoning proposals.

Old thread, but thought I'd add some perspective.Right now, I think the ATV (since they can ride on city roads) and Snowmobile community is the primary upward potential for the Berlin area.

I called my Chicago rep, Janet, and hitched a ride to her next appointment - mostly to get the heck out of what I perceived as place with a big bulls eye on top of it.

That is going to come with it's set backs & challenges but if you scale up & ride out the issues you will do well long term. 

When they are rented I receive as check in a timely fashion and when they are vacant I do not.  

Just like putting money in the stock market when things spiral downhill you need to expect that and enjoy the ride.

For those, I have been looking at FSBO on Craigslist, non-PM rentals listed on Craiglists, local Buy-Sell-Rent Facebook groups, driving for dollars (a/k/a driving around the area you are interested in and looking for houses in some sort of disarray), and good ol' fashioned MLS (both through automatic emails from my realtor and Redfin).