Hey everyone, My name is Chris. I'm 20 years old and I'm looking to get involved in the market. I live in Los Angeles, South Bay area. I recently got my real estate license last week, so I'm looking forward to get tha...

To keep things simple, let's say the business cashflows about $350k, but is in a high-risk industry, and could sell for $1million after commissions and closing fees (not accounting for capital gains tax).

.*  If you invest in areas of the country with no industry growth, low education, and endless land to build, you propbably wont get any appreciation.* of course this is barring a major trump administration f-up.  

Hello all,I am part of a consortium of investors in WA state seeking to invest/purchase notes in the following areas:2nd lien notes:  nationwide1st lien notes:  WA state onlyWe have recently purchased a WA 1st lien note from Kondaur Capital but these guys don't have that many WA 1st notes to sell and their reputation within the notes industry isn't unblemished, to say the least.  

don't know if there is a code of conduct for those folks or not.. probably not the first industry that wanted to get help from postal carriers.. they have jobs for life though so I don't think if its frowned upon they would risk their jobs for small dollars.

If commercial, are you looking at apartments, retail, industrial, storage, etc.?

I think it's somewhat of an industry standard.

@Barry Allen I take it that you are interested in Real Estate Investment, so I would suggest you find something in that industry.

I have been in the construction and real estate industry for the past 15+ years.

It helps protect yourself for sure from the poorly trained legal people or from people that claim to be in the industry, BS and scam artists.