We are living in the middle of a breakdown of the markets due to corrupt lending practices with greedy executives and uninformed people getting involved in business they never should have. This is never good for stocks and I don’t care what anyone says. Shooting down that bill was the right idea. Let wall street battle it out. They screwed up and the tax payers should not be bailed out. At the same time capping CEO pay at $500,000 for running a bank is psychotic and shows NOTHING of a FREE market system.

However, I must admit the system is/was broken. When I left NYC in 2000 I knew there was more than what the .com bubble had. But I had no clue that it would ever get like this in real estate. I used to date a real estate broker in Maui and I used to tell her that this

by Self Directed IRA Advisor
A self directed checkbook IRA allows you to have checkbook writing privileges of your IRA retirement account.

If you’re a seasoned real estate investor, you know just how fast expenses can add up on a piece of property. A few trips to your local Lowes home improvement store, a number of calls to your contractor or a simple mistake made by an inexperienced handyman means you have to shell out money, money, money - right out of your pocket.

Now imagine if in addition, you had to pay an additional fee to the custodian every time you needed to cover an expense related to your investment. On top of your financial losses, it can be an enormous expense of time and frustrating to say the least. Would you agree or disagree that this is no way to steward what is more than likely the most important …