(Btw, everything I just said if very simplified to illustrate the basic points...please nobody beat me up

For example, to simplify for purposes of illustration, if your credit profile is strongest at Bureau A, then you should apply for credit with creditors that access credit info at Bureau A.In sum, you can get better results for yourself while at the same time saving money, by avoiding these kinds of offers.Dan* Not intended as legal advice.

I guess it would serve us all well to remember what's important in life, and it's not the next deal as you illustrated.

Please note the illustration for the steps below. 1.

Doesn't hurt to illustrate the low returns available in CDs, bonds, and annuities, and the volatility and low 15 year average return in equities (< 5%).

And used a case study to illustrate it, and talked about why it's very difficult to use any of those indiscriminately without knowing more about the particular property.

I believe at one point I had found a video on google for free, a presentation Dan did at one of his conferences about the power of the Dunning mailer process as illustrated by a local plumber he had hired.Here's a quick wikipedia article about Dunning:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_(process)You can see it was originally used, and probably still is, with collections companies.

Doesn't hurt to illustrate the low returns available in CDs, bonds, and annuities, and the volatility and low 15 year average return in equities (< 5%).

I have read the 2% and 50% rules but had not really connected them in a practical way as you illustrated.

(Oct. 15th) Saying, I started reading the above post and stopped right after the second paragraph and skimmed it.When I can post other information ti illustrate what has been the basis here, I will, we can take it up later.Again, the bottom line for newbies, in this thread, is not to go into the note business as a way to end up with a property, that's not the note business and you can get burned with such strategies.