Since this is likely one of the most popular topics on the forums, I would like to get as much feedback, and provide as much help as possible in the hopes that it will, at a minimum, show the possibilities...First, let's distinguish between Prospects and Leads. 

Unless you somehow intend to distinguish being friendly and courteous from being friends (and I don't see it) then what you have said there is self contradictory. 

Is it that hard for title companies to distinguish all the hidden liens?

****Several factors that need to be additionally clarified and I will be checking on....Fannie distinguishes a difference between LLCs and corporations below in the seasoning comments; however here they do not say if corporations include LLCs.

You get to be involved during some of the most important times in your clients lives.It's also competitive as hell and it can take years to distinguish yourself as a professional rather than a fly-by-night agent.

More correctly, OREO or Other Real Estate Owned, to distinguish it from property such as bank buildings and branch offices.

What distinguishes most real estate investors isn't their abilty to do better, more rigorous, financial analysis of the real data than anyone else could, it's that they have the guts to pay for the real data or get it the hard way, and the gusto to leap over the edge and buy with imperfect information.

so in order to wholesale properties i was thinking of marketing something along the lines of distinguishing the differences between realtors (who market 100's of properties) and a smaller wholesaler (who focuses on 1, 2, or 3 houses at a time).i see the main differences being:1. a wholesaler pays alot more close attention to moving the property.2. the seller receives earnest money 3. the wholesaler, if they're good, have buyers, financing and marketing all set up ahead of time4. the wholesaler doesn't charge a % commission.5. the wholesaler works to SELL in 30 days or 45 days at the most.i know that alot of talk is going around about how a wholesalers assignment fee is like a realtors commission - but i mean, that's just downright ridiculous.a wholesaler signs a CONTRACT TO BUY...whereas the realtor signs listing agreement.

In it's present condition, i can't see it selling past the 32k, that may be the high end actually.I'll wait them out, maybe i can come back in a week or so and get it at $3-5K if they get desperate and don't want to risk not getting anything.By the way, how would you distinguish if a comp was for buy and hold vs. regular sale, etc, just by the buyer being an LLC?

Many lenders, including myself are not going to even try to distinguish between residential homestead and residential investment property - we are just going to stick with commercial property where the borrower can't later move in and have his attorney claim we made a non conforming consumer loan.Casualty of excessive Government interference in the market.