Any other investment alternative?

Interested in finding out about alternatives to investing in San Francisco as it is a super expensive place to buy. 

Also the self serve internet model would be preferred to a lot of people vs the go into an office with 3 forms of I.D. and wait for for the cable guy to come to your house and install the equipment.I'm waiting to amass capital for my next property, and in the mean time I'm trying to figure out alternative sources of income.  

I want to sign up with a national coach, I have thought of signing up with freedom mentor I was wondering before I did make the choice if anyone has taken his course?

Alternately, you could get something from them in writing giving you permission to remove their things.

I have a 3bed 3 bath SFR for sale for 140k 15K down 125k financed @ 8 % I will have a previous note for 124k @ 3.5%- Mortgage and Escrow at Buyer wants to place cash down as soon as possible, we have a verbal agreement and I have contacted an attorney (www.lonestarlandlaw.com) in the state of Texas to do the contracts (he is charging $750.00) Looking for advice as far as being totally protected and if this is a good deal/good choice on attorney?

This is one of the reasons why it is more advantageous to buy investment real estate in your personal name so that you can take advantage of the depreciation deduction for tax benefits and use your self-directed IRA to invest in other alternative assets such as trust deeds or mortgage notes. 

This sucks, but it leaves me with a choice of a market I know with low returns or investing out-of-state and getting higher returns at higher risk.

So after looking at a bunch of alternative investments I really like the strip centers right now for cap and debt spreads for COC returns.  

What really ultimately needs to be DONE NEXT is a truly ALTERNATIVE approach (that benefits BOTH the seller and buyer, as well as the 'terms' dealer...