I requested that the defendant put up an appeals bond if she was going to appeal.  

Look up the 3 fund portfolio (Total Stock Market, Total International, Total Bond Fund) Bogleheads.com is a great resource for vanguard investors. 

There are also office requirements applicable to brokers, bond, net worth requirements, physical office address and phone requirements, some dictate operating hours.

My question is ... can we duplicate this source of return via the use of margin on our stock / bond portfolio...

Within real estate:  private lending, syndications, Delaware Statutory Trust (DST), Opportunity Zone (OZ) funds, As mentioned, there are public market options such as REITs and their preferred shares and/or bonds. 

When you tell these people that it often takes more than a decade before the investing makes things like that possible, they go looking elsewhere for advice, until they find someone who's willing to sell them what they want to hear.Building relationships, improving your lifestyle, relieving chronic anxiety, creating strong friendships, building bonds with family, work-life balance, delayed gratification, risk-reward management, lifelong financial freedom, all the really good things about REI are often suffocated under the overwhelming need to GENERATE INCOME TO QUIT MY HATEFUL JOB.What's the best thing about investing for me?

I believe that when they do move out that they will use the bond as the last months rent and I will have nothing to fall back on if there are damages.

Lenders will want to know if the borrower has savings accounts, money market accounts, stocks or bonds, negotiable instruments, cash or other real estate, or anything of tangible value.

The only thing that mattered was the money to be made by "bedroom brokers" making commissions on "liar" loans and the bond traders at the investment banks, who screwed their ostensible customers and in turn the American public.Frank

Record a memorandum of contact and have the seller bond their position.