Between savings, bonds, credit and potently gutting an IRA I could scrape up about 10 to 12k.

Forgot....the Act requires originators to be insured and bonded.

I purchased investments in SLF I, SLF II, SLF Opportunity Fund I, SLF V and a number of Fixed Income Fund bonds. 

Developer did not satisfy his requirement to get all the completion bonds in place as stated on contract in order to trigger us sending additional money.

For me personally, I am going to move to either move in fees or surety bonds depending on my attorney's recommendation.

Even the US bond is downgraded by Fitch due to political stuffs. 

The way I read your post is that it appears you might be equating a rental to being as passive (or nearly as passive) as a stock or a bond.

I had a friend that had a HUD house under contract but they found some 25k bond attached to the property that HUD failed to disclose.

Also, I have business partners because of the bonds that I made in college.

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