Also I see facebook as a pretty good skip trace tool.. with so many people with accounts..

once you get more experience, you can bypass the inspector and go with trusted contractors but for the first few houses, i strongly recommend not skipping the inspector.you will have to schedule a CC and fire inspection if you decide to proceed. 

I call the court and the clerk tells me the tenant came in with his court notice they mailed him, and sure enough it did not have the court address on it, the printer skipped it......she assured me she has never seen this before and it is rather odd.

But if you can find someone willing to carry financing for you, thus allowing you to skip dealing with the banks altogether, that's even better!

My 2 cents is to just find a skip tracing service, and a source to get lists from(taxes owed, code violations, out of state owners etc) this is much more effective and less time consuming.

In which the cost of the renovation is included in the mortgage.Has anyone ever used this mortgage and does it still produce the same effect as the normal BRRR strategy where you skip the refinancing stage?

But there is a pattern I've observed:  Go to a "free" seminar, get pumped with the idea of no money down REIGo home and start wholesaling Don't find a deal in a year Abandon the REI dream I say to people all the time if you have some money $25k or more [and you do Maria it's in your home as equity], then buy something just skip the wholesale step unless you are like super young with a ton of energy to dissipate on chasing sellers and investor "buyers". 

And are you usually skipping title insurance?

Account Closed  so how do small investor compete with these big players.. they buy the big package cherry pick by the time the notes get to us little guys we get the left overs.this is why I just skipped that and created my own niche with QUALITY performing notes that you don't have to bid on or compete for.. granted returns are not as much as what those hope for in the NP space but there is no work to them.. they are there and ready to go.. just buy them.. its all teed up.. spend zero time on all this work..

You should have extended closing until the issue was resolved.Actually, the first lesson is that you shouldn't buy property in California but I'll skip that.The second lesson is that you shouldn't ask friends for advice unless your friend happens to be an attorney with experience in residential rentals and the California eviction process.The third lesson is that you should get a new attorney, preferably one that specializes in evictions.