I just can’t see engaging people with only 140 characters all day long.

Kitchen moving, sales, and installation services are businesses here but as you can imagine, tenancy tends to be much longer here than in the states.20-30 year tenancy is not out of the ordinary and the pro-tenant laws are extremely strong here, it takes over a year to evict and often the evicted wind up right back in the same unit due to social service laws.

I registered for ActiveRain what seems like a few years ago and it seemed to be mainly for Realtors and those engaged in “normal†real estate transactions.

Kotlikoff says: “The IMF is saying that, to close this fiscal gap [by taxation], would require an immediate and permanent doubling of our personal income taxes, our corporate taxes and all other federal taxes.“America’s fiscal gap is enormous – so massive that closing it appears impossible without immediate and radical reforms to its health care, tax and Social Security systems – as well as military and other discretionary spending cuts.â€He cites earlier calculations by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that concluded that the United States would need to increase tax revenue by 12 percentage points of GDP to bring revenue into line with spending commitments.

If I were a young person with that decision today I would enroll in a college program where I was able to take alot of courses in real estate.If I felt college would not be beneficial educationally or socially for myself, I would enroll in CCIM certification program.

J Scott,Copy that.However, isn't the big difference that you will have to pay Social security and medicare tax if it is income vice just the income tax portion for a capital gain?

Small business owners are going to benefit from reduced social security rate.

Our rental activities had always been treated as engaging in a “passive activityâ€â€“ not a business.

Websites, social media domination, google etc.

Been there, done that, can be very profitable with the right place, right staff, right administrator/director, the right insurance policies and companies, the right doctor on call, the right social worker, not to mention the right politician!