I am a musician and worship leader at my church, and I love all sorts of music from Big Band to R&B, Classic Rock, and 80's stuff, and of course the Rat Pack.

My ultimate goal in real estate is financial freedom to enable the money I would make to buy me more time to spend with my family.

With us, they can have no risk (contingencies int he contract to protect them), do no work (with a POA, our attorney handles the closing and we do all the legwork) and they get anywhere from $10,000-$100,000 on a deal (depends on the spread).We also help the homeowner because the combination of our attorney and using the charity enables us to hasten the short sale process (we had one approved in 2 weeks).We do tell the banks that this is a fundraiser for the charity, but we don't tell them the number.

After carefully considering my goals andd reams for the next few ears, and investigating a lot f potential opportunites, I decided to sopend my resources and time on Real Estate investing, and turn up the heat, to enable myself and my wife to move to warmer cclimates of the country inwithin 2 years.

I thought my background in financial analysis may enable me to seek opportunities with commercial real estate investment companies and help me to gain knowledge of that field.I am looking for advice from the forum on ideas and paths to consider as I search for my next employment opportunity.Rick Schneeberg

Unlike many businesses, evaluating the "goodwill" factor in real-estate is pretty straight-forward: vacancy & eviction rates, along with the state of upkeep give you much of it.You can only pay a price which enables you to continue to profitably operate the business.Write the letters of intent ... it's just the cost of postage and a bit of time for a follow-on telephone call.

I am not looking to charge crazy interest, but rather to partner with someone who's strategy is house flipping and who needs capital and enable them achieve their goals while at the same time working towards mine.Appreciate any advice/comments.Jason.

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The kitchen is in the middle of the first floor enabling it to easily service both front areas and back yard.

I'm not an expert on how all this works, but it's enabled us to avoid any issues with due-on-sale clauses.