You'll make a lot more money likely fixing teeth than grinding teeth selling real estate I think.   

@Ben Leybovich You could take your table winnings and divide it into thirds;Then put one third into gold (hedge inflation)Put one third into tax free municipal bonds (tax free income)and put the last third in to Berkshire Hathaway stock, Class A, not the Baby Berks .

We are licensed and bonded and have passed FBI background checks.  

I have been educating myself on tax liens, SFH and multi unit investing so as to diversify away from my current stock / bond allocation -- thinking "he who is willing to get hands dirty makes more money."

I second Taz's saying that unemployment is much higher than reported, although I thought it was around 15% but I did not look through the latest numbers-either way it's higher than they report on the news and it will be pushing 20% soon enough.Here's my investment advice for you to think about: (regarding stocks & bonds as there's plenty of good RE advice here) Currently what the government wants is for you to do 1 of 2 things: 1.

Only after you cut your teeth working hands-on on a few deals in your backyard, then and only then would I even consider investing out of state.I followed this path, local first then out of state, and even though I was well experienced before looking out of state, I still had MAJOR problems ...

I have long tenure IO loans, but use T-bill and bond ladders to maintain liquidity/reserves.

. - Treasury is already announced by 2024 they would buyback US bonds, less risk for CRE as rate would be lower.

For example, the Federal Reserve began buying more mortgage-backed bonds to keep the market afloat and at the same time instituted a mortgage bailout for borrowers hit financially by the crisis.

If you say very low, they will put you in bonds with 3% return.