BiggerPockets

Nice to see another person from Tennessee here!!!

Hey Jim - we've had a few chats, but it is great to learn more about you. I have a few friends who work the same hours as you. It definitely gives you the opportunity to get out there during daylight to do your thing!

Thanks for your participation on the site and I hope you find everything that you're looking for from BP.

I wanted to let you all know why I will dissappear for a little while.

I explained a while back in another thread how I got into this business and that I cancelled all my insurance coverage so that I will be able to put more money into my brothers family who has a lot of medical problems. To shorten things they are now treading water and I checked myself out knowing what I had ignored for the past 8-10 years to get them above water.

Now I have been diagnosed with melanoma throughout my body, it is considered stage 4. In order to get me covered for this the doctors are going to declare me 100% totally disabled which will allow them to have me participate in a clinical study for a recently approved procedure which may well abate or cure the melanoma altogether.

It is chemotherapy but is supposed to be in a pill form. I was told the name, but do not remember it at this time.

I do not know the legal issues of continuing in "self employment" of RE while being totally disabled. But I will still be around now and then.

I wish to thank all of biggerpockets for sharing their knowledge with me and sincerely hope that I have been able to give back to this forum a portion of what I have learned.

Thank you all for being here. I will be in the background often, and wish everyone great luck in your RE endeavours.

Thanks, Curt. Things will work out one way or another, as with RE we learn to adapt to the "rules" and "regulations" that change the game. But I do not give up.

This was to let people know why I MAY not be on for a little while. It was not to ask for any kind of pity, even though I do appreciate the responses.

Things will be rough for the next 6 month till disability kicks in. But then there is a whole lot more time to devote to the investments that I have learned about here on BP. I may be limited to the actual number of homes that I can purchase and sell per year without being considered "in the business" but what I can do will still provide a decent living.

All is not lost, 2010 may be washed out, but I fully intend to be back by 2011 and maybe even operating at a higher level than before!!!!

Good luck, everyone. JIM