Headaches after headaches on your end just to sell the house so you can get the bank as much money back fro them as possible, so that you only get "semi-crappy" credit instead of "fully-crappy" credit.  

and build a semi- 'referral' based business... if I'm advertising to help people sell and own, a home.  :-)  Scott

I get at least one call a day from the new "hard money lenders"  These are semi institutional lenders pretending to be hard money lenders.  

I guess I was semi conscientious of this, as I remembered most of the time.  

(SEE PICS BELOW) in other words, rule out the deals that have a weird sign in the financial transaction history that says they or a "no go"  and also the financial signs that all point to YES YES YES,  PLEASE GO AND KNOCK THIS DOOR. i have hit a total of 35 doors speaking with around 15 homeowners. 2 - semi polite NO's15 - Hell no's2 - IF YOU DONT GET THE F%$ off my properties' 16 - the rest not home :) im in sales and have a tough skin, lol but im ready to get rollin again!!!

In my walking the property, I discovered a small, semi-buried tire dump (about 200 tires, I estimate) that would have been virtually impossible to know without boots on the ground.

They sold their condo and bought a new Corvette so the story has a semi happy endind.This type of scam is rampant in Florida as well.

I plan on securing my first land to build this summer and would like to hear anyone experience on doing it whether it is a tear down and rebuild, or securing raw land and re zone it or already rezoned land and build townhouse, semis or detached..I personally would like to start small.

I mostly deal with already installed homes with one acre lots in semi-rural Texas. 

As a buy & hold investor, I'm interested in the following but wonder what you think the best angle to pursue would be:Purchase a townhome/SFH as a local rental; my research says Reston/Herndon are prime areas but it's been hard to find something other than a retail deal.Look to purchase multifamily in a nearby semi local area  I've been looking @ Baltimore MD/Winchester VA as they seem good & growing.