The company initially defended the trip after The Associated Press reported the company had booked 12 nights at the Wynn Las Vegas and its sister hotel, the Encore Las Vegas, beginning Friday.

Claim: I3 Solutions was issued a Cease and Desist order by the FTC.Fact: I3 Solutions was never issued any Cease and Desist order by the FTC.For reference, if you had stopped after your first statement of, "S&S Private Capital, Inc. and S.O.S. is not in any way affiliated with I3 Solutions," I probably wouldn't have dug any further.But, then you felt the need to defend I3 Solutions against the allegations, which made me wonder...Long story short, according to his linked in profit, Gene Schwalen is both CEO of I3 Solutions, Inc and S&S Private Capital, Inc, which in my book is much more than just an affiliation:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gene-schwalen/5/29b/863In fact, it would seem I3 Solutions and S&S Private Capital are run by the same person, which would likely make them one and the same, though I guess technically the guy could be so good that he's maintaining two CEO jobs simultaneously...

Just buying assets at .50 cents on the dollar or better... stay deleveraged..Why would you leveage personally... that defeats the purpose of what you are trying to accomplish..Ie... alot of books and people teach when starting out... to pull cash out of their personal residence...That's gambling yoru sole goal is to get personally free of debt or at a very debt to income... 30% or less or so...So, you build a business that uses leverage to create or find equity and duplicates... and then get equity out...Imagine you were back in times... and you found out you could mine for gold...You go out and find gold... and then put it on the shelf hoping one day it would be worth more... well of course it will....but, the moment you found it... is the moment of highest return...

I am esp fond of reading American books!

And not just real estate books, but finance, business, and all of those flavor of the week "look at me I'm a millionaire" books.

Also I would recommend books by Larry Winget.

Book of Revelation.

Just curious if there are any good stories out there...I'll start - Around early 1990's still in college and had some time to burn, was browsing books at Tower Records down in Marina Del Rey and saw something like "how to buy government land for pennies per acre."

If your cash position to invest is 500 or 5,000, the best advise is to continue to hoard and educate yourself through this site with seasoned pros in this industry and experienced pros in other asset classes els where. stock tips are worthless unless your friends dad works for an airline that gets a favorable decision on a plane crash case(wallstreet, circa 1987;). p.s. invest in what you know, if you know little invest in your education, books, seminars, etc.

I've also been reading books and articles about wholesaling, educating myself as much as possible.