Gun Control - An Argument for Gun Control

 Guns in the wrong hands are dangerous. Guns should only be in the right hands. Which hands are the right hands? That is the question. Now for the answer... The right hands are the citizens' hands. When the citizens have guns, there is freedom. When the government has a monopoly on guns, there is tyranny. We need to take away all guns from all government employees and especially the most dangerous government employees, the police. There are many studies and statistics that support the basic fact that police are far more dangerous than terrorists. Conservatively stated, you are at least 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.

I would urge that all police should be disarmed and deprived of their body armor. Police can be issued whistles that they can blow to try to get honorable citizen passersby to help them if they are in danger. Armed citizens can protect our police far better than police can protect us. A good illustration to support this contention recently happened in Texas and was reported by KHOU 11 News in Houston on January 11, 2013. Two Good Samaritans in a Mercedes-Benz came to the aid of Kevin Dorsey after he was robbed by a man wearing all black and a ski mask. The Good Samaritans not only caught up with the suspect, but they took down the bad guy. The suspect, identified as Christopher Hutchins, was treated at Ben Taub Hospital www.thecompositecompany.co.za. He survived. "I don't believe in guns," said Dorsey. "I don't own a gun. I'm totally at the mercy of my saviors. They obviously sent two angels to help me. These people protected me when I couldn't protect myself." There is no need for police to possess weapons. All government employees and especially "public servants" should be disarmed as soon as possible. We have the power to do this because we are their bosses. They are our servants. Our acquiescence and money facilitates our "public servants."

It should be no surprise that governments are far more dangerous than terrorists and even more dangerous than criminals. Look at the well-documented facts about violent deaths in the past 100 years. If we add up all the murder victims from criminals and combine those with all victims from terrorists, the totals are far lower than the numbers of victims from government violence. Every human on earth is in far more danger from their own governments than from all other threats combined. That has been the way of the world throughout all of history, and remains that way today. Why do you think our nation's founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights? Public servants in Nazi Germany were following orders as they dealt harshly with "Enemies of the State" (what we in the USA would classify as "terrorists" today). One of the more recent examples of the danger from government was in Cambodia's killing fields (1975-'79). Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a population of around 8 million. Most victims were mercilessly tortured and mutilated during interrogation before being slaughtered by their public servants. Many were hog-tied and then had their throats slit. Some were buried alive with just their heads above the ground. Then the sadistic public servant executioners would torment their victims and then literally bash out the victims' brains with clubs as the next victims watched helplessly and waited for their turn.

Even more recently American soldiers brutalized many Iraqi citizens. Iraqi women and children were tortured, raped and murdered by CIA and American soldiers in front of their parents to try to get the parents to tell where the weapons of mass destruction were. Of course the unfortunate Iraqi parents could not possibly tell where the WMDs were since they never existed. There are numerous records and eye witness accounts, including photographic evidence that verifies these facts. The torture and murder of Iraqi civilians was approved of by our government. This is still the official policy of our own government. On January 25, 2013 CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison for exposing elements of torture being used by the U.S. government. U.S. district judge Leonie Brinkema said she would have given Kiriakou much more time in prison if she could. We have already slipped far down the slippery slope.

Most Americans are apparently not alarmed when our government troops torture, rape, and slaughter innocent unarmed women and children in far-away lands. Unfortunately for all Americans, the same policies are coming home now. Torture has been legalized in America. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) permits our public servants to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" (i.e. torture) on Americans. Our public servants now claim that they have the right to kill Americans extra judicially without due process and with no oversight. A "Justice" Department memo reveals alleged legal case for drone strikes on Americans. In a recent congressional debate on the NDAA for fiscal year 2013, Representative Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) presented the following question to FBI Director Robert Mueller regarding the killing of American citizens without the right of due process: "Does that only apply to a U.S. citizen that's overseas, or does that apply to a U.S. citizen here?" Mueller's reply was: "I'd have to go back... I'm not sure if that was addressed or not." A Clinton appointed public servant, New York Southern District Court Judge Colleen McMahon, issued a ruling on January 2nd 2013 acknowledging that the government's actions "seem on their face incompatible with our Constitution." Still, her ruling effectively allows American citizens to continue to be targeted and killed in secret without due process and without oversight. These facts tell us that there is no justice in the "Just Us" system today because they claim that killing innocent U.S. citizens without due process is legal because they say it is legal. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Claiming a right to kill innocent Americans without due process does not legitimize such killings, even if some accomplices jump on the bandwagon and try to lend some credibility to the claims. It just means that they are co-conspirators and accessories to the murders.

On the surface it would seem that the warrantless clandestine snatching and rendition of suspects to secret prisons without due process violates the 8th Amendment. The NDAA authorizes indefinite detention of anyone, including Americans, without charges, in secret, with no Constitutional rights, on the mere suspicion or accusation of being a "terror suspect." The definition of "terror suspect" has already been expanded to include suspected drug dealers, "Occupy Wall Street" protesters, radical environmental protesters, biker gangs, and the list is rapidly expanding and may soon include gun owners and military veterans and/or anyone who tells the truth. The mere incantation of the word "terrorist" by a public servant strips away all Constitutional rights of the unfortunate target. As in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, the accusation alone is sufficient to seal the fate of the victim. In essence this means that no American has any rights whatsoever if they can be deprived by simply labeling the suspect a "terrorist." Anyone who can read and write could be classified as a "terrorist" if our public servants were to decide that literate citizens pose a threat to their Pol Pot-style monopoly on power. Hide your reading glasses.

The majority of Americans seem to want to be dominated and abused by their civil servants, judging from recent election results. I do not understand the minds of those who are into sadism and masochism (sadomasochism), bondage and discipline, etc. I do support the rights of those who choose to be tied up and whipped, handcuffed, and otherwise abused. To each their own. I agree that you should have the right to pursue your fetishes. However, you do not have the right to force me into your lifestyle. I do not want to be abused by civil servants or anyone else.

The gun grabbers may be right when they say "nobody needs 10 rounds to hunt a deer." But the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or target practice. Citizens need weapons sufficient to defend against a tyrannical government, as our Constitution specifically states. Any imperious public servant, whether an arrogant festooned judge or a pompous legislator, who thinks the government should infringe upon the citizens right to bear arms, is in reality a heinous criminal who is blatantly violating the U.S. Constitution and should be brought to justice.

Action movie actor Jackie Chan recently publicly expressed his opinion about the government of the USA. He has lived and worked in the USA for much of his life. He no longer sees the USA through rose-colored glasses. He is now highly critical of the current U.S. government. He is among a growing chorus of people all around the world who are no longer willing to remain silent about what America has become. Our public servants seem to have given themselves "The King's Pass" and their public servant cronies in the judicial branch of government are supporting them. Our police are rapidly becoming more and more militaristic. Public servants dealt rather harshly with Randy Weaver's family in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. The public servants at Ruby Ridge and Waco were rewarded and promoted for what they did there. There has been no reform since Ruby Ridge and Waco, quite the opposite. Look online at the video that has gone viral showing Ernest Duenez's death in 2011 by MPD officer, John Moody. Similar clearly unjustifiable shootings by public servants have been happening all across America so routinely they do not even shock us anymore. Any contact with an armed public servant is highly dangerous for the citizen, even if you are unarmed, and even if you have done nothing wrong, and even if you fully comply with all the public servant's orders. Now we hear of police training where dissents or potential trouble-makers are deemed as "zombies." Dehumanizing disobedient citizens by calling them zombies is intended to make it easier for public servants to kill unarmed citizens. Homeland security has been buying training targets depicting "unconventional targets" i.e. women and children. The government has been hardening their command and control centers. The government has recently been on a buying spree, buying massive amounts of hollow point "man-stopping" ammunition, which is not typically used in training. Hollow points are for killing, not for target practice. Our public servants typically rationalize their ostensibly unconstitutional actions by averring to the consequentialism argument (the ends justify the means). What our soldiers have been doing far away from the USA is now coming home to America.

By far the greatest threats to life, liberty, happiness, and property come from our own government. We can still save ourselves if we will disarm our public servants. The alternative is that our government will continue in the same direction that it is already going. If we do not disarm our civil servants, then we can expect the same things to happen to us and our families as what happened to the Russians, Cambodians, and Iraqis and so many more throughout all of history. That is simply the way of the world. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. Whenever tyrants have absolute power, the outcome is all too predictable. Would you like to see your children tortured, raped, and butchered in front of you? Do you think you deserve to be buried in the ground with just your head above the ground? Then the executioner will bash your brains out with a club. Your life is not even worth wasting a bullet on, as far as the "public servants" are concerned. If you think that should happen to you and your family, then you should go ahead and continue doing exactly what you are doing now by enabling our public servants to dominate and abuse the citizens. This is exactly what governments tend to gravitate towards unless impeded by honorable citizens. This was well known by our great nation's founding fathers, as evidenced by the venerable Bill of Rights.

If you would rather NOT have your children raped, tortured, and murdered then you should take guns away from all civil servants, and defund them. I am sure that civil servants serve some useful purposes. However, everything they do can be done much better and far more efficiently, and safer by the free-market system. There are non-government arbitrators, security guards, private prisons, NGO charities, and more that could easily fill the gap if we had no public servants. We would all be much better off if there was not even one civil servant anywhere in the country. If we do decide to keep some civil servants, then we must disarm them ASAP. The very first of them to be disarmed should be all our federal elected officials and their guards. The next to be disarmed after our elected officials should be all judges, then the police, and eventually all government employees at every level of government including local, city, county, state, and especially ALL federal employees. Their home addresses should also be public records available to everyone.

Some reasonable limits and restrictions on our Second Amendment are acceptable. The real question is "who shall determine what is reasonable?" Certainly our contemptuous public servants should not make such a determination. We need to devise a new way to determine what is "reasonable." The power-addicted public servants who have been making these determinations have veered far away from the Constitution. Firstly mental patients and especially those who are taking anti-psychotic pharmaceuticals (AKA psychotropics) should not have access weapons. Anyone who trusts government is certifiably insane. The totality of history tells us what we can expect from government. It is insane to keep doing the same things over and over again and expect different results. A good litmus test for insanity is belief in government benevolence. Government can be benevolent only when honorable citizens have the power. Power comes from the barrel of a gun. I would guess that most people would agree that children under the age of 10 should not possess weapons without their parents' written permission. Also young children should not possess weapons unless they have demonstrated operational proficiency with their weapons. It is reasonable to restrict weapons of mass destruction (WMD), specifically nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons. The man who does have the keys to our nation's nuclear arsenal should have a background check. Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "Cold Case Posse" criminal investigators discovered that the Obama birth certificate posted on the White House website on 27 April 2011 was a computer-generated forgery.

Most people are basically good. Unfortunately good people are not generally attracted to public service. The lure of public service attracts the very worst of the worse. Look at all of history. How often do we get public servants who are not amoral sociopathic power addicts? Acquiring a position of petty power usually leads to an insatiable lust for more and more power over others. There is nothing on earth more addictive than power. The political system currently in the USA leads to megalomania that is rampant among our public servants. There can be no doubt that at least 99.9% of the public servants now running roughshod over America are extreme sociopathic and high-handed power-addicts with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. In the warped minds of these self-righteous public servants, as bizarre as it may seem to those of us who are sane, they somehow manage to convince themselves that they are the "good guys." I am sure that the Khmer Rouge public servants thought they were the good guys too as they were slashing the throats and bashing the brains out of anyone in Cambodia who wore glasses. The Stalinists public servants thought they were the good guys as they went about exterminating anyone that they thought might someday oppose collectivism (confiscation of their property). The Maoists public servants thought they were the good guys too as they killed tens of millions of their own citizens for offenses such as being a property owner. Today public servants in Zimbabwe, North Korea, and the USA believe they are the good guys. In their warped parasitic minds I am sure everything they did/do was/is completely justifiable.

Now to paraphrase John Lennon, just imagine the benefits of disarming the greatest danger we all face. Imagine how polite the police would be if all citizens were armed, but the police were disarmed and prohibited from wearing body armor.

"Imagine"

♪ Imagine there's no tyranny

It's easy if you try

No presumptuous public servants below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living without fear...

Imagine there are no condescending parasite power-addicts

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no bureaucracy too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace without disdainful public servants...

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine police without guns

I wonder if you can

No need for fear of being killed by out-of-control steroid-head trigger-happy cops

A brotherhood of free man

Imagine all the people, except contemptuous parasites

Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one, without power-addicted supercilious leeches lording over us. ♫

Every free citizen has the right to bear arms. Our Second Amendment Rights have already been incrementally taken away. For example, when a man is charged with a crime he loses his Second Amendment Rights. After he has paid his debt to society for his crimes, his rights should be restored. The USA has the largest prison population on earth. Anyone, regardless of actual guilt, can be targeted and sent to prison. The feds pursue with a vengeance any politically incorrect citizens and "truth movement" citizens, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. All crime labs all across the country and especially the FBI Crime lab are well known to routinely falsify evidence, fabricate evidence, forge evidence, taint evidence, and offer false and misleading testimony to obtain convictions, as was exposed by Frederic Whitehurst, the FBI's first whistleblower. Also it is becoming easier to get caught up in the criminal "justice" system as conduct that has long been considered acceptable behavior becomes criminalized by new overreaching intrusive nanny-state laws that have criminalized activities such as collecting rainwater on your own property, growing a garden in your yard, washing your car in your driveway.

Those who have not yet fallen victim to the "justice" system still do have the right to bear arms including so-called "assault rifles" like the AR-15, as well as actual assault rifles including the Barrett REC7, HK417, SIG 716, Steyr AUG A3, FN SCAR-H MK17, Beretta ARX-160, Kalashnikov AK-12, etc. However, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Private citizens (not government employees) also have the right, as is guaranteed by the Second Amendment, to own, carry, and use more potent and lethal weapons including the XM-25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System, GAU-19/A, M230 chain guns, Armata T-99 MBTs, Sukhoi T-50s, M270 MLRS, MQ-9 Reaper UAVs and any other weapons, armaments and munitions at least equal to the best our military has. The aforementioned weapons are admittedly overkill for home defense, but The Second Amendment is not just about home defense, instead it is mostly about protecting the citizens from our own public servants (AKA governmental tyranny) and especially defending ourselves from treacherous wild-eyed gun-grabbing fanatics like the hypocritical concealed-carry permit holder Diane Feinstein and her dodgy fellow-travelers. The citizens need weapons at least equal to or superior to anything the military has.

To better understand the nature of the system we can look at the body of work by Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator who became a whistleblower. In her book and on her website she explained the process that has greatly contributed to utter corruption at all levels of the U.S. government. The FBI does reverse vetting of high level government officials. All federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, congressmen, and all other high level government officials are investigated by the FBI to insure that only the most absolutely amoral sociopathic power-addicts and pathological liars are approved for high office. If skeletons, such as pedophilia, murder, treason, or worse, can be found in their closets, they are approved for high office. If there are no skeletons in their closets, there is not sufficient leverage to control them and they are promptly disqualified from the higher positions of power in government.

All prosecuting attorneys, judges, arbitrators, and especially juries should be strictly instructed to always distrust the word of any public servant. Public servants are almost always dishonest about everything, even when the truth would serve them better. Truthful public servants are about as rare as vegetarian snakes. It is against the nature of the beast. To glimpse the mind of public servants, read some of the non-fiction books by public servant insider and best-selling author Victor John Ostrovsky. How can you tell when a public servant is lying? The public servant's lips are moving. Polygraph (lie detector) examinations are ineffective on public servants and other sociopaths because they exhibit no symptoms of distress when lying. Occasionally a good person may become a public servant, but indoctrination, vetting, peer pressure, and the "bunker" (us against them) mentality soon overcomes all resistance. Even good public servants will succumb to the cult-like camaraderie within their ranks. The cultists themselves are always the last people to recognize that they have been brainwashed.

We would be much safer if we went to every insane asylum and handed out guns to all the psychiatric patients rather than to allow our public servants to have guns. Of course I oppose giving guns to psychiatric patients. They are not stable and it would be extremely dangerous if we gave guns to them. However in general, psychiatric patients have no malice and they are not completely corrupt and amoral power-addicts. I think that neither of them should have guns but of the two, egotistical public servants pose a far greater threat to our life, liberty, happiness, and property.

What can we do? The call to action that I am proposing is firstly to accept reality. Accept the fact that the greatest threat honorable and patriotic Americans face is from our own haughty government "officials." Secondly, we must insist that all public servants be disarmed ASAP. Thirdly, defund all government until all public servants are disarmed. Lastly, if the parasite class refuses to surrender their weapons, then we should take decisive action to defend the lives of our families and future generations against what is inevitable if we allow our public servants to remain armed and dangerous.

Recently deceased former L.A. police officer Christopher Dorner, who condescendingly advocated for gun control, was an example of the parasite class gone amuck. You can be sure that in his public servant mind he was the good guy, as evidenced by his 11,000 word semi-literate "Holier than thou" Facebook manifesto. Another public servant gone amuck is Nancy Pelosi, who recently said that Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job. To see how dignified her job is you can watch the CBS "60 Minutes" show titled "Insiders" which aired on Sunday November 13, 2011. She and her husband have become fantastically rich from insider trading, which is illegal for everyone outside congress. Insider trading is legal for congress only because those "dignified" public servants wrote laws that exempted themselves. What is inevitable is that our public servants will naturally become more and more out of control like Nancy Pelosi and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge era public servants unless honorable citizens put them in their proper place. Hopefully many of the parasites will be encouraged to quit feeding off the public and get honest jobs so they too can become productive honorable citizens. This can only happen if we put our foot down and quit enabling arrogant power-addicted public servants. The enablers are our biggest problem, followed by the apathetic. We can prevail if we put our public servants in their proper places while we still have the ability to do so. "Every nation has the government it deserves." ("Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.") Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)

5 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Using Composite on Your Deck - At All Costs!

I've been fortunate enough to have worked in the home decking industry now for about 20 years. I believe I've worked with just about every material available in building decks. Over the years, I've developed a particular objection to a decking material, namely composite. If you're not familiar with the composite material, it's described as a deck board manufactured from wood fiber and plastic with the idea of being more durable.

Early on, this building material was touted by various suppliers and authorities as the 'ideal decking material' that would change the world of decking by itself. Through the years, I've gone from wide-eyed believer to optimist to skeptic to (now) full-blown critic. And it's not that I haven't given the material a fair try since I've built numerous decks using it. I'd like to share five reasons why I believe you should drop the idea of using composite to build your deck.

1. Composite isn't as low maintenance as you might believe. When the material was first introduced as a decking material, the suppliers touted the materials as "maintenance free". Everyone was thrilled with the concept and the decks went up. Then, about 3 years later, there was a rumble from homeowners. In came reports of cracking and wear. Suppliers went out to investigate, repairs were made, manufacturing processes changed (allegedly), and the material was then marketed as "low maintenance". But that's not the end of the story. In spite of the back-pedalling and the changes that have been made, a groundswell of lawsuits has developed around composite material failing with injuries. Don't believe me? Then I suggest you do a simple Google search for the word "litigation" along with whatever composite you're considering (or just "composite decking complaints"). I think it might be an eye opener. For me, the bottom line is that I've had a problem with every composite deck I've ever built.

2. Manufacturers have not taken the steps they've needed to take. I don't want to be a complete critic with composites as they do have a couple of features that are fine. But the real problem with the concept is that the manufacturers, even as of today, have never thoroughly tested the products they've put out in the marketplace https://www.airgunkart.com/. The revenue continues to come in, and they seem satisfied with handling the complaints on the back end. I frankly don't know if they care much about putting a stellar product out there. As I mentioned before, I've never seen one.

3. Composite is pricey. I don't know if you've priced out deck composite or not, but it tends to be on the high side. The justification is that it's manufactured along with all the benefits the manufacturers sell you on. But, as I've said earlier, many of the benefits are simply not true. There's no reason you should be paying more to a manufacturer who you may potentially sue for selling you an inferior product. My opinion is that the manufacturers have been better marketers of this material over the years than good manufacturers.

4. Composite is aesthetically overrated. Again, the manufacturers did a great job of presenting a lot of options to homeowners. There are different mixes that make up the material, along with different colors. But the feedback I hear from others is that it looks and feels fabricated and artificial. I've had homeowners tell me afterwards that they wished they had gone the more natural route. And I can share with you that there's nothing sadder than sitting on a deck with a homeowner sharing that regret with you.

5. Composite isn't wood. This brings me to the chief overriding problem with composite. And that's its desire to be something it's not, namely wood. The whole idea behind composite was that it was essentially going to be "better than wood". I can almost hear Mother Nature laughing when a manufacturer's rep makes this claim today. (I truly believe that she, Mother Nature, is taking her revenge on all of us for trying to out-do her.) All of the efforts by composite in comparing itself to wood today simply fall flat - it's not as good-looking as wood, it doesn't feel as good as wood, it's not as durable as wood, and it's more expensive (both short-term and long-term). I don't know about you, but it looks like wood is pretty far ahead in just about every respect!

I think I've pretty well laid out my position in regards to composite. The obvious truth is that through years of experience, I don't believe composite compares to natural wood (particularly in the hands of a wood craftsman).

Patio timber decking has become increasingly popular in the 21st century garden. In line with this, a wide selection of patio timber decking kits are now available to buy online, direct from the manufacturers and without the need to pay top-dollar prices down at the high-street DIY chains.

These kits are designed specifically to be easy and straightforward for the average DIYer to construct. Indeed, provided you have the basic tools held by most households - battery drill, saw, and a tape measure - there is almost nothing stopping anybody building one of these off-the-shelf kits in just a couple of hours.

Once you have decided where your deck is to be constructed, and prepared the over-site (the ground area onto which the deck is to be constructed) you can begin constructing the joist subframe. Why construct a joist subframe? There are a number of reasons.

Firstly, and most obviously, the joist subframe provides the DIYer with a strong and structurally sound base onto which all decking joists are mounted.

Another key reason, and one often overlooked by the DIYer (and the cheaper decking kit suppliers, for that matter) is that only treated timber should come into contact with the ground. On this basis, a minimum of C16-grade timber is required. C16 is very popular in Britain, and widely specified by architects, builders and DIYers alike for use as decking joist timbers. The classification C16 basically determines how many defects the timber has (such as grain defects, knots, etc) across the length, width and depth of the timber.

If the deck is to be raised, you will most likely use raised posts to hold the decking subframe in the air. Support posts should be no further than 3 meters apart, and regular 2" x 4" joists should, as an absolute minimum, be supported by the use of 2" x 6" timbers.

To ensure that the area underneath the deck is free draining, boards should be laid down along the gradient (Rather than against it). Raised decking support timbers are fixed through the use of either metal post anchors or metal spikes. The post anchors are bolt-down shoes, into which the vertical support timbers are inserted. The metal spikes are, quite literally, 60cm spikes which are driven into the ground and which act as 'anchors', into which the vertical timber support posts are inserted. Remember that any deck surface which sits at or above 60cm above ground level will fail to meet planning regulations. If in doubt, consult your local planning authority.

Richard Harwood is a leading supplier of cheap decking kits, deck boards and other timber decking components, and is founder of Timber Decking Warehouse, a leading decking company based near Leicester, UK. Timber Decking Warehouse has designed a wide range of high quality, cheap decking kits and can also supply customised or bespoke decking by the meter.

The Real Estate Investing Advice You Need

Remember that investing in real estate is more like playing chess than playing checkers. One wrong move and your business could go under. You're going to achieve success when you know what you must do and this guide will help you get started.

Make sure that you set realistic goals based on the budget that you have. You should not set a goal to buy ten houses in the span of a month if you only have a hundred thousand dollars to your name. Set reasonable expectations to avoid setbacks at all costs.

Marketing will be crucial to your success. Marketing is what generates your leads. Without solid leads, you are not going to find good deals on properties. Therefore, if something is not working in your investment plan, turn to your marketing strategy first to see what is going on and what can be adjusted.

You should take the time to learn as much as you can before you begin a career as a real estate investor. It's crucial to learn as much as you can before you delve into the real estate world. Try buying real estate DVDs and going to the local library to find real estate books to boost your knowledge of the subject.

Reputation is important when you are stepping into this arena. Tell the truth and don't lie to clients. This makes you credible and people will become loyal.

Be careful about choosing properties with strange room layouts. You may personally find it interesting, but many people don't like these strangely developed properties. They can be extremely hard sells. Picking one up without a potential buyer in mind can lead to it sitting in your inventory for months, if not years.

When you invest in real estate, you may want to make sure you're in an area that you really can live in. You don't want to get real estate just to find out that you don't like the area because then you're going to have to own that property and won't get much use out of it until you can sell it.

Always get your properties inspected. Inspections are not a bad thing, and you shouldn't think of them as an annoying expense www.sedalawfirm.com. Inspections can uncover serious issues that may not be immediately apparent. This can give you negotiating leverage or allow you to fix issues before someone else requests an inspection.

Rising property values are not always a given. It is dangerous to assume that any piece of property will rise in value. It is much safer to invest in property that is already producing an income. The appreciation you do end up seeing will just be icing on the cake.

Choose wisely who you allow to live in your rental property. Ensure the tenant can pay a deposit and the first month's rent right away. If they do not have all of the money to begin with, there is a greater potential that they will be unable to maintain payments. You must then seek out a different person for the rental agreement.

If you are looking to buy a rental property from a seller, ask to see his Schedule E tax form. That particular document will honestly tell you what kind of cash flow you can expect from the property in question. Crunching the numbers tells you all you need to know about whether or not to buy.

Think about the possibility of getting rental income from any property you plan on purchasing. This can help you make thousands during the year from others who live in it. Then you could resell the house for a bigger profit later on.

Stay away from purchasing property in areas that are deemed unsavory. It is important to be attentive to the properties you buy. Research it thoroughly through newspapers and word of mouth. Nice houses with great prices are sometimes in rotten locations. The harder it is to sell, the worse deal you'll get.

Don't let your emotions be your guide in real estate investing. What you want personally certainly plays into home buying for yourself, but not for investing your money. Stick to what can make you money, and that is it. Always compare a property's purchase price versus what you can make from it in terms of rental or fixing up and selling.

Don't go too far into your personal finances for your investments. Make sure that you always budget to the best of your ability when it comes to your real estate investment property. Don't let this situation destroy your ability to live from one day to the next.

Obtaining affordable financing when investing in real estate is essential in order to be successful. Verify with your mortgage broker or bank the interest rate and monthly mortgage payment prior to making an offer. Make sure your monthly mortgage payment can be covered by the rent from the property.

Look for properties that will be in demand. Really stop and think about what most people will be looking for. Try to find moderately priced properties on quiet streets. Looks for homes with garages and two or three bedrooms. It's always important to consider what the average person is going to be searching for in a home.

Reputation is important in the investing world. Therefore, always tell the truth and try not to make any enemies. Most importantly, follow through on what you say you are going to do. If you are not sure if you can do something, do not make the claim in the first place. Your reputation could suffer and affect your business as a result.

Be open to making sacrifices. Profit in real estate does not happen overnight. You might have to cut back on your luxury expenses in order to have enough room to find success. Keep in mind that your dream activities will be waiting when you achieve your financial goals.

It is much easier navigating your way investing in real estate when you know how to make the right moves. The challenges become more difficult when you aren't informed. Utilize the information you now know and formulate a strong plan to get started investing in real estate.