I assume the trade off is less investment returns.After a few years the cash value is almost what I have put in so I took a loan at 5% for the downpayment on an investment property.

@Matt Vaughn Something that you could try if you want to mess with it and as mentioned don't want to store them for another project is to find out if your area has a Facebook buy sell trade site and join it, post the pic/add and go about it that way.

. -- Don’t just be a “jack-of-all-trades" 3.

I play the market all the time but I am young and far from wealthy so I'm a gambler and stick to options and go in and out very fast i have gone in and out of higher and lower tax brackets over night.... the market could crash this year and many say we are in for an earnings recession and in my view it could be any day bc if you just google S&P500 and look at the chart in max view you will see from as far back as it will show up up up up down down up up up up down down up up up up etc...... we are due for a major correction soon although i think markets will rally some more this year and this coming earnings will generally be poor but not as poor as predicted so the market will be looking good and the FED will raise rates at the end of the summer than yea after the holidays things will be super slow higher rates higher costs and with the oil prices and political movements more volatile than shares of tesla maybe yea a big crash and some people will lose it all while some people will be buying it all waiting for the next upswing its the cycle of life...Craziest thing i ever read about the stock market was that SEC halted trading on a bunch of medical marijuana stocks that were trading on the OTC market and i said WAIT WTF theres public pot corps lol i mean who would buy a medical marijuana stock... forget cooking the books what happens when the DEA burns the books so how does that work.... so aslong as there are people dumb enough to invest publicly in a company that is operating in a risky federally illegal business than yea the stock market can crash any day of the week for just about any reason...

I know many General Contractors who will use RS Means (or similar tools) to put together a bid when they are unsure of the cost for tasks related to specialty trades (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, siding, roofing, etc). 

/hour as our labor costs for most of our trades.

If you ever have any tax / accounting questions please run them by me as that is my trade and I would love to help out.Have a great 4rth.Eric

We trade info, knowledge, partner on deals and drink a lot of coffee.Larry

You have traded up in value from $125K to $950K and you have reinvested your equity of $125K. 

In the State of Florida a contractor (the person who passed the trade examination) can qualify up to 2 businesses provided they can prove they have supervisory ability over each business.See link below.