So, is it useful to take college classes or other formal RE classes if all you really want to do is be an investor?

Unless your father formally adopted his former wife's daugher, that child is probably not your father's legal descendent and has no claim to any part of your father's estate.

Cross the line of what is locally customary and you could find yourself having to foreclose as a deed of trust in a judicial process, even harder to get out of than a note and deed of trust!

You may want to consider developing a formal system of your own for invoicing tenants, handling maintenance requests, conducting tenant screening, etc.

Built in 1955 and from the looks of it, the people must have wanted to live in a time capsule because everything is very 50's. 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, formal dining room very spacious kitchen (pink tile though), unfinished basement, ranch style on a 1 acre lot.

just a more formal form of it?

I have been looking into Judicial Tax Sales also but do not have the money to buy them straight up.

now I will make my formal intro..CaesarAtlanta wholesale Investorand Mortgage Loan officer

If they quit paying you the following questions become relavent:Is NC a "trust-deed", state or a judicial foreclosure state?

While I've posted a bit, I haven't done a formal introduction.