Still looking for more suggestion on a note fund that invest in firsts and offers a monthly or quarterly return from day 1 for a sophisticated investor. 

Gas is already up a quarter or more here over the last couple of weeks, and that's from unrest in one fairly small producer.

I'm going to do a monthly treatment plan for 6 months, then do quarterly for the next 6 months. 

Pick an apple or an orange. why not add a Banana :) What did Clinton and Oboma raise in a quarter?

Only paid that to get 4 more quarters of qualifying for ss.

Of course this could also motivate banks to start releasing their shadow inventory at a greater rate, meeting demand and causing prices to stabilize.In sum, it’s anyone’s guess, but it’s clear (to me at least) that basic supply and demand economics are too simplistic to predict the relationship between interest rates and home prices.The sources for this chart are:30 Year Interest Rates from Freddie Mac (averaged by quarter): http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.htmHome prices from John Shiller’s “Irrational Exuberance†website: http://www.irrationalexuberance.com/

I've seen parking spaces listed for 1M, maid's quarters at luxury buildings sell for 3-4M... 

Purchase price: $300,000 Cash invested: $75,000 Live in fix and flip of a demolition house on a quarter acre in the path of progress in a hot market zoned fourplex.

If the deal sponsor is experienced and the business plan is sound, then your money will make monthly or quarterly cash flow, and then at the time of sale, you will get your initial capital back and then also get an additional profit of any where from 50-125k depending on how much appreciation the sponsor was able to force.

That said, it's clear that our economic recovery has begun, the worst economic quarter in the post-World War II era is behind us, and the question now shifts to how quickly we recover.