What skills are most important when looking for investment properties vs. a formal residence?

Or more importantly, the inability to contact a bank directly WITHOUT using one.If interested in my 2 cents, please continue reading.Being a licensed broker since 2003, and working with "banks" for the last 10 years or so, I have sold several thousand REO properties owned by banks.The last 4-5 years being the busiest for my firm, selling over 400-500 each of the last few years.I started as an investor, made contacts with banks (2nd mortgage companies) at judicial sales auctions in Chicago, and began my ancillary career as a broker for these properties.Based on what I heard during the podcast, I would like to bring up a few points about making offers on REO's direct1- The tax records, depending on the state, county, etc can be backed up for several months depending on the technology the recorder's office uses. 

Understand personal finance from a formal education side and you can see how a borrower may be effected and the analysis there is also appropriate.Dive into your state's foreclosure laws, when you see a term, like right of redemption, look it up and study that, Google it, on lawyer sites and see how such are applied in different situations.

Also research LLCs and their formalities.

Once they have formally accepted your bid, they will be quick to contact you.

I'm sure most people can understand what I'm saying, even if my phrasing is formal.

I went to school back in 2009 and became a certified computer repair technician in hopes of using it as a stepping stone to go back to school and formally get the education I didn't get because I didn't see the value of school then.  

Foreclosure by stateI would check that list, I'm pretty sure Florida is a "judicial" state . . .

The more a tenant resists courtesy notices, the more formal I get in my communication with them - to the point where I'm citing conditions of their contract with each request (e.g., "Pursuant to section 10.3(a) of your rental contract, you are hereby given the required 24 hours notice that remediation of a window leak will commence on the premises by Acme Construction, LLC.  

Does that JD stand for judicial doctorate...