Just a legitimate opportunity to write articles for small business owners and be paid per article.

Legitimate contractors will not want to even visit the house if you tell them what your expectation of cost is... and they will know after looking that writing an estimate would just be a further waste of time. 

Be sure that income being quoted is from legitimate leases, not phantom leases to make it look better.  

I've been looking for Hard Money in Michigan. It's tough. LOT's of what appears to be a sketchy leads. Can anyone recommend a legit Lender that will finance a good deal? I'm new but I'm not inexperienced. I have 2 suc...

Basically, the B Buyer investor is just confirming that he has a legitimate C Buyer.

. - When we're dealing with a [real, legitimate] lending bank, we have more of a chase after earned income (Banks want work to be done before paying for it)... but we always try and make sure that we have a pretty sizable downstroke and we don't work too far ahead of it before calling for the next draw.

There may be a few legitimate ones, but that is not a common practice here in CA, and there are as many bad stories as good.

If someone doesn't want to pay for you to run your business in a legitimate way, you need to move on.Regarding taxes... it isn't your client's job to add taxes to the bill.

This to me really legitimizes  the transaction.

A lot of desperate people looking for ridiculously cheap rent or "work for rent for situations" (as if that last one even exists).But, amongst the fodder, you will also find legitimate potential tenants who just prefer for landlords to find them.