I am going to do my best to give back to this community by blogging as much as I can in this topic concerning my first flip...

A potential outlet for cheap gcs would be a pawn shop... but they wouldn't go this cheap.. maybe 80-85 cents on the dollar.... still a fat savings.

I have done classes in the past and any funds received was a minor reimbursment for my time, but I felt that the students received much more than I did.That said, my answer is also a Big Fat NO!

You can, in some states, search the DMV for registrations.

I was thinking if she could offer maybe 10-15k cash they may take it as a short pay, but I don't know if the bank is going to want anything to do w/ that property w/o giving her a fat deficiency judgement.Any suggestions on how to approach this with the lender greatly appreciated.

There are some good areas, but you can't expect to find the kind of discounts that you can in other areas.

As in, if their were a few listings 20% above the MEAN rental rate or a fat supply available at the MEAN rental rate.Still though, back to my original question..

There are many people out there that are more than happy to give you information including realtors and you need to develop as many of those relationships as you can in this business.

This could be a saddening post for someone that read some books and attended some course and got home and just waited on the fat checks to roll in.I have been very successful at several things in life and what I can add to this is like MikeOH say "hard work", but I think even more is: CONSISTENCY..dont stop not matter what anyone says if its something you wanna really do.

When William Jennings Bryan made his famous "cross of gold" speech in his 1896 presidential campaign, he was speaking on behalf of heavily mortgaged farmers whose debt burdens were growing ever larger in real terms, the result of a sustained deflation that followed America's post-Civil-War return to the gold standard.4 The financial distress of debtors can, in turn, increase the fragility of the nation's financial system--for example, by leading to a rapid increase in the share of bank loans that are delinquent or in default.