You get tax benefits for operating a business, and business assumes a profit motive.

My fear is that, as lenders, we could end up owning what would amount to condemned buildings on soon to be vacant lots when our borrowers either walked or went bankrupt after the “Big One” hit.While I also wonder about the solvency of the CEA, we’re in the process of re-evaluating our personal and business insurance and this thread motivates me to dig a bit deeper into it.

You can't say: "Oh this house has boarded-up windows, tall grass, and a bunch of unpicked-up mail, so that means they are likely very motivated".

The more you do it, the more you want to do it again and again.I attribute the majority of my success and motivation to the knowledge I have acquired.

I am currently trying to understand how people with 40 hour/week jobs efficiently go from building a list to getting a motivated seller on the phone to an appointment and signing a contract I currently have more money than time and I would like to outsource all steps of wholesaling besides the sales portion.  

I'm interested in connecting with someone who has done a subject-to deal in South East Idaho in the last couple years.I'm under contract to buy a house where the sellers were pretty "motivated" to sell. 

I have 2 jobs and am very motivated.

Focusing on the education route presents a more manageable scale and something that you can see how motivated the audience is.

Calling for a motivated and experienced agent who can assist me.

Some will question your motives and intentions much less than others.