I always suspected that to achieve anything of great notoriety in Architecture one needed to have access to wealthy friends or develop projects oneself.

I'm in the training and have found it very helpful, but I'm unclear about the legalities of billing oneself as a private money lender if you are not licensed by the DRE.

If not, you could always maintain 2 separate IRA accounts, one self-directed for private lending, and then another for your traditional investing.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought”Mans Search for Meaning: - “What matters, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment”The Richest Man in Babylon: - “To attract goodluck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities” - “Men of action are favored by the goodness of good luck”The Millionaire Next Door: - “Looks can be deceiving”

It's not a good combination comparing oneself to something that is essentially extremely "better" (extremely easy, extremely successful, extremely lucrative) 

Is there value in not making oneself a ready target?

Savan cool well it is good to start and when it is the first deal it is wiser to be cautious and not over extend one self on the payment and rehab costs.

What happened in North Carolina was definitively unforeseeable, a freak event, without any forethought of such, or means to defend oneself from such unforeseeable. 

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason: “To attract goodluck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities” “Men of action are favored by the goodness of good luck”One of the most important qualities that I see in successful individuals is that they take action.If you do nothing, nothing will happen.Where do you need to take action in your life?

@Stuart UdisAny reason a title holding trust (with trustee other than oneself) and LLC as beneficiary wouldn’t give anonymity and limited liability?