Bonds, stocks, gas, natural gas, etc.

I think your strategy is dead on James Gefke.

You're dead in the water at that point on a conventional basis.I suggest you begin by buying your own home, live in it while you fix it up, if that is necessary, and flip it and move to the next one.

a guy i know has a urinal in his home, when he asked me to sell it for him i suggested to him to remove it....he was dead set against it. he is one of those guy that starts a project and never finishes...fifty percent of the studs in the house are showing, he's late on his mortg etc...at one time he had a hot tub in his living room, one of those type of guys

You're wrong, it's a "POCKET VETO" it is not in place, it was caught at the White House According to the news, it was a Rebublican sponsored bill (generally anything that would be a big plus for banks and wall street will be from that side of the isle) , there was no public discussion and it passed with flying colors, the White House caught the deficiencies and how it would effect the situation and it is now dead.

That is that like travel agents and full price stock brokers, real estate agents will be put out of business altogether.

I'm brand new to this after retiring, but was recently at a stock option seminar where 2 14 yr olds were working to pay off college expenses BEFORE they arose!

A run down junker or a bunch of dead beat tenants can result in much lower, or even negative, cash flow.That's just a quick and dirty analysis to determine if its worth digging deeper.

Precious metals soared instantly along with the stock market.

If there was a fire in her unit, because of all the fuel, it would burn very hot and quickly, endangering everyone in the building and creating more deadly smoke than would be normal in such a situation.