You can also find real estate investing groups through meetup.com, Facebook, or a Google search.

What he's asking is "will you facilitate and knowingly aid me in tax evasion"?

His business isn’t even on good maps and doesn’t show up on a google search.

Just want to do my due diligence before proceeding, has good reviews from google but haven't seen any reviews from people on BP.

I hope you have a minute to copy and paste this to her google or zillow reviews.

I would go with google reviews and interview 3 contractors and go from there 

@Carlo D.You pay interest on the principal only, so every month your principal amount of loan is slightly lower which will reduce the amount of interest you are payingGo to Google and search amortization table and it will show you the principal payment, interest payment and loan balance after each month.

If its a stagnant growth market what benefits do you achieve waiting a few years rather than ripping off the band-aid and paying your LTCG taxes now? 

She will be an constant pain in the rear client who will blame you for everything and then leave you a bad Google review.

There is a wealth of free information here.And Google the enemy method.