Has anyone been following the news on rental bonds that Blackstone is starting to promote?

Not to mention your possible requirement to be bonded and insured.

The good thing is that all the "custodians" (as they are referred to) have great education sections on their site.In a nutshell, the 'true' self directed IRA/401k allows people to use retirement funds to get involved with more forms of investment rather than solely stocks and bonds.

If you are familiar with bonds, it's not a giant step to buying notes.

Make sure they are licensed(and bonded too).

At that level half would be customary with good income, they are looking first to the collateral.Need much more info to give a thumps up or down.What ever your partners agree to as to your liability to them.Might search for capital underwriters but this is small, they sometimes kiss the note for a fee or bond the investors at a some level.I guess you're saying a bank is willing to make this non-recourse, if you are doing that with individuals you're heading into dangerous waters.

In finance, you can calculate the cost of equity using CAPM and cost of debt by looking at bond yields because there is such a highly analyzed public market.What can we assume about real estate investment discount rates?

This is what a title company does when you purchase a property but the cost to pay a bonded title company would get large fast if you tried to do that for each property you thought was a good deal.

Stocks vs Bonds, Cash vs Gold, Energy Stocks vs Retail Stocks ad nauseam.So to get back to streams of income it doesn't make sense if you have 5 houses in one city as 5 separate income streams because what happens if there is an earthquake or it was in Detroit?  

For example, my lady and I tried the to install the kitchen back-splash, great bonding experience but, not hardly our strong suit.It wasn't until I heard one particular podcast when the rhetorical question was posed, "where am I most valuable, in my business or making money for my business."