Thanks for all the replies...
I should be home before the end of the month from Iraq and my lease is over in December. That gives me 2 whole months to find my first deal because i plan on living in my first investment until I come back out here again 8-12 months after i get back. Im trying to think about my first move right now... more than the bigger picture. I really cant help from wanting to dabble in a little in wholesales though. I have been investigating about 25 possible properties, half of those are REO's. From my computer in Iraq iv been looking through tax records and getting as many comps together as i can. My plan is when i get back to submit really low ball offers on all of those properties and hopefully at least one will counter and we'll play from there. But if not i will do a little marketing, (Bandit signs, run an ad in the newspapers for a couple of weeks, and maybe even through mail) I haven’t really decided on exactly how to do my marketing yet.
I have found quite a few investors in my area...7 small real estate companies through tax records alone! Just off of houses that i was looking at and decided to do a little more research. Iv looked all those people up and have numbers and emails for all of them. Maybe that will help me with my wholesaling if i do any of that.
Also another big priority for me is to set up my "team" I know of a few real estate attorneys, i need to look up and find a good title company that deals with investors, and i still need to find, contact and set up relations with inspectors, a good realtor, and some kind of financing.
If there is anything left that maybe i have left out...mind throwing some ideas out there?
Thanks in advance.
Jere
