If you have the gift of gab you can get info out of them if they don't think you're some nut....with some strange guru thing.Look at rentals, see who holds rentals and obviously they buy, ask them if you can help them to learn.But, I suggest you not just go beg the first name you get, you need to vet them.

It's been getting nuts out there.But your "market price" indicates it's in a less desirable area, like SW Denver, or ??

Some people just get off on being the biggest fish in a small pond... while crapping on all the other fish...

Now obviously if like your wife you bought long enough ago rising rents have made her property viable but purchase price to rents out here are just nuts especially with the current climate of appreciation.I invest buy and hold out of state but I do so where I grew up and do know the areas so it makes it much more doable.I don't flip myself, but know some that do and what I have heard is that the # of deals has absolutely decreased but that the margins have gone up so the 2 have offset each other.I think were I in your position, evaluate if your flipper friends would be willing to help you break into the market.

My 2 cents - You may want to call several realtors and let them know that you are in the market for an investment property. of course you will get some realtors that will think you are nuts because some (not all) don't really understand the types of properties we want and you will never hear from them again.

Hi Justin,Well, I have to say the best nuts-and-bolts how-to I've read so far has been the free book offered as the promo on this site (which is why I joined).

I would like to just try funneling more of the water away first before we go nuts on keeping the water out.

What do you say, golf is expensive and fishing is cheap?

Not really a little white one as it's probably true, someday....We can't determine the degree of nuts someone may suffer, unless you're a shrink or a judge, don't be concerned with the capacity issue in this.

I'm afraid that if I ask for an app fee, people in this area are going to look at me like I'm nuts.