Alex, When people call and ask can they manage your property and then a random agent calls and say they have a client that may be interested in your home that is two different things.

If the lender/title company/other realtor/buyer/some random dude on a forum thinks i'm an ******* at the end of the day, I'm ok with that too.

There is always something after closing but before you've settled into the typical long term behavior for the property - filling an up-front vacancy as in your case, dealing w/ random smaller deferred maintenance items, and so on.

When it was test time I would have to get the teachers to read some of the stuff to me out loud or they would pull me out of class and a random teacher would read the questions.

Here's some random thoughts on what you posted.friends or family members I go to for advice are just going to tell me to "keep my day job".

Smith down the street that has money from her late husband and doesn't know what to do with it and wants to loan it to me for rehabbing (random example)... what kind of paperwork/contract would I use regarding that money?

I happened across this forum when I randomly decided to google "real estate investing forum", and I must say, it is a veritable treasure trove of information.A little about myself: I'm 23 and getting my marketing degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in six months.

(as for the assumptions you implied; remember, this isn't a random home, it's family member's neighbor...

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