If you wonder what is better between investing in the stock market or real estate, there is no answer to that as both have pluses and minuses and then it can come down to knowledge, risk and volatility tolerance, personal psychology and perception, which are different from each of us.

Meanwhile, they may chase my good tenants away because of the perception of inaction by the landlord.  

My perception has always been that it's a little more blue collar but when I asked around, a lot of people have said it's a depressed area and I'm better off sticking to the Chicago suburbs. 

IE a JV deal.. and they take title in the name of that LLC.the benefit to them is if you fail according to the operating agreement in the LLC they can just eject you from the LLC and not have to foreclose.. now in principal i personally see nothing wrong with that set up as a lender. but its not the perception that most that reply to their no money down lending program are aware of .. and or since most are beginners it could be a little overwhelming or complicated for the borrower to fully comprehend.. with a borrower just thinking hey if it closes great were do i sign.

Suggestions were mostly for perception purposes.  

Many virus’s now are very sophisticated and dig themselves well into operating system files that cannot be deleted or cleaned without disabling your computer.

However, the "corporate" contractors seemed to own the market there, specifically because of all the consumer protection/ licensing fees, requirements, etc, at least to my perception.

More investors lose it all by trying to be too sophisticated with basic principles like this.Your return will come from buying good deals over and over again. 

Originally posted by Steve Babiak:Didn't seem to happen with the judges and this penalty - OOPS, I meant to say "tax".Funny thing is, this appears to be the one thing that both Presidential candidates can completely agree on -- they both claim (Romney just this morning) that the individual mandate is NOT a tax.Personally, it sounds like a tax to me, but unfortunately, both candidates appear to care more about perception than they do about reality and people...

I've got nowhere near the sophistication that some of you have regarding economics (though I pay attention and am a fast learner), so I'm not really posting to argue a point, as much as to learn from your perspectives.There are some things I don't understand about the arguments about whether supply side economics does or doesn't work.