Unless you're going to be putting in 6% of the early mornings, late nights, stress, sweat, injuries, and headaches as I had to endure while renovating a property; you're not getting it.

If you need help with insomnia, they may be great reads, but as to modern financing, you better look closely at every sentence before you act on something

But there is a limit to the risk they're willing to endure.

The biggest sales job you have to do everyday is the one on yourself.You're not alone when it comes to facing adversity.We all have to endure some level of pain regardless of how accomplished we have become.When thoughts of doubt cross your mind, you have to learn how to become aware of them.And simply choose to act in spite of them.Good luck.

My sole intent is to procure investment properties in Low-income, increased crime activity areas, and neighborhoods enduring poverty primarily in Newark & Jersey City.

The sellers owed money at closing that he didn't tell them about, in the end, because he was scared to say anything.He was so bad, that it almost inspired me to become a realtor myself.This of course does not account for the $3000 in work I ended up doing on  our old house, that wasn't planned or the fact that I had to endure 2  different Home inspections ( both were completely different lists, and only 2 weeks apart) and get the runaround from a Radon guy on the old house either.

Depreciation is the natural aging your home is allowed to endure, basically the standard calculation of wear and tear that enables you to deduct from your tax liability.

I really want to know what kind of success stories, as well as failures people have endured using their self-directed retirement plans to invest in real estate.If you don't want to post your responses online, please go ahead and private message me with your response, and I can contact you off-line.Please be as specific as you can so that others and myself no how you and many other people have used retirement plans to fund real estate transactions, and what kind of profit or loss they have endured or experienced as a result.

Few late night comments dealing with insomnia....LOLGood stuff Jeff.

It was a short sale that I was working on with a partner for about three and a half months which seemed to be pretty fast even with the hurricane Sandy that the northeast endured.