I love to tell people about what I do.Most folks my age hate to hear about what I do.Makes it very hard to get along with folks when just about everyone in my 'social peer group' slaves away in a cubicle doing their 50 hour workweek and I have the most awesome job in the universe.Haters gonna hate...

JScott - FNMA also is trying to thwart those who pursue the cash-out refi within the restricted interval; kind of silly, since most lenders have some seasoning period that must be met anyway - but not all have that seasoning requirement, so ...

Sole proprietorship's pay payroll and they can open a 401k.Depending on your age, IRA contributions are currently limited to $6000 per year.

Faxes are becoming obsolete because as Jennifer pointed out no one uses land lines for phones anymore because of the age of the cell phone so faxes much like land line based phones are right there with 8 track,VCR's and dial up modems.Emails are where it's at.

I know you're not supposed to take age into consideration on a rental application, but I would be much more lenient with a 22-year-old guy when he had this problem when he was in his teens versus a middle-aged guy that is participating in these type of shenanigans!

So I get a 31% return after age 50, but 0% return before that.

This thread has been covered numerous times - do a search of the archives and you should be able to get plenty of answers to this age old question.

I was very hesistant at your age to jump in but now at 25 I'm going for it.

We were able to buy three places by age 26 but we did "nothing down" and were barely getting by.

Which is not just about the numbers but considers other important aspects of the property such as location, demographics, zoning, crime, soil, wetlands, flood area, red tags, condition, age, lead paint, etc.