Hi there, I am real estate broker for 1st Class Realty ALL PRO serving the Lake, Mchenry, and Cook counties of Illinois. 

All the things on the menu and I pick something I can cook at home, but great.It’s your money, your right, even if you’re wrong.    

Shure it's made thing easier, more access and cheaper to launch and promote the next snake-oil.

Screw these two things up and you're cooked. 

And, this involves everything you care about:  stocks, real-estate, business dev, commodities (oil, precious metals, minerals, etc), estate planning, asset protection.  

The bond market is influenced by two dozend things including geopolitics, the oil price, currency markets, the stock market and what my neighbor's dog ate for breakfast.

That's behind but I still reflect on the slick snake oil sales techniques that pulled my wife and I into the "course". 

You have to make 'sacrifices', maybe don't buy a $50K vehicle every 4 years, cook at home more often instead of eating out/ordering in, etc. 

Will you hire a cleaner or a personal chef to cook a meal once in a while?

Doing the math, if a seasoned fix and flipper had a well-oiled efficient process and was able to consistently hit $50k per house (after costs and overhead required to go at that pace), he/she would have to do 34 flips in 21 months to make what we made on one deal.