nope, I've got 5 children, so a rented mini-van was the way to go.It's to bad the Cards didn't win........but what an amazing game.

There's also some provision in the IRS code to avoid this tax if you are insolvent.The lender (actually, the investor who holds the loan, which is most likely someone different than who you make your payments to) will indeed write off the bad debt.

All they do is tell them "falling is bad, if you ever fall you will probably die and won't ever be able to get yourself up, you need us"

The market here in Stockton is pretty bad, but I believe now is the time to BUY AND HOLD.

Things pulled back and the excess and bad inventories were liquidated through the RTC.This set things up for the bigger build up in the early 90's through the tech bubble and lurching even faster forward as the credit faucet was opened full in the late 90's and early part of this decade.

I have heard good things and bad things about apartments.

As an investment, this is a bad deal.

It's wild west free market on those babies while the retail homeowner market keeps telling people that "real estate is a bad investment" and keeps the overpaying newbs out of the market.

Bad is it's on a septic system.

Unlike retail where the tenant is only there for work hours so the wear and tear is not as bad and they don't notice the small things when they aren't there all the time.