It will still be a charge-off and the fact that you paid won't have any influence on your score.So, what you want them to do is to give you in writing that they won't validate the loan to the credit reporting agencies, when they get an inquiry.

My concern is that if I am wholesaling (which is my focus to start) I may not have the ability to influence who the deal closes with, in which case, where is my value to this attorney?  

Fortunately, serious people who want facts that make for correct investment results they are not so easily influenced on such substantial net worth changing matters by just reading blogs.

In fact besides being a factor that I think would help save us from a total real estate crash, its also probably a factor in influencing some of these local bubbles.

If you delegate tasks out you'll find your sanity will maintain its current level, your risk will be mitigated in most circumstances and your network of influence will exponentially increase which could lead to more deals.

I don't keep track of the market out there anymore, but to me it seemed like the market on Oahu was influenced greatly by international investors.

Don't let the plusses of the property overly influence your numbers.

Impulsive and emotion influenced decisions can be detrminental, and I'm sure you want to start off right :)

Residual influence ;-$ very impressive and I'm sure you have done many more campaigns since then.

From my perspective on the market there are several factors that recently occurred which will influence the market:Dodd-Frank is changing it's affects on the market (This includes many loan related laws).