It depends on your appetite and financial ability to carry out the post-purchase fight.

Amex gold if you believe the annual fee is worth it6.

Wire fraud, identity theft, fake sellers, fake buyers stealing things from listings… all these things are common these days and agents always get named in the resulting law suits because they carry E&O insurance.

sfvrsn=0 I have a sub that uses this service, they are a joke, nobody knows anything except carry materials.

Owner financing, buying subject to, Owner carrying back a 2nd for just the downpayment part.

Hey Ryan, (in general) your passive income will be offset by these prior passive losses since they carry forward :) 

I know of syndications but would not recommend any.It's definitely an "opportunity", but if everyone defines it as one then it'll lose it's steam as soon as momentum carries the first to it.

If attorney reps a successor trustee, they want to protect that person in carrying out their fiduciary duties.That would usually include a bias towards seeing that an asset to be sold gets maximum market exposure. 

I read on one of these forums, where someone was looking for creative workarounds to avoid a down payment, the suggestion to purchase via seller carry, then immediately refinance after closing, which I understand would pay the seller immediately?

It's not impossible to do a 1031 exchange out of a property while carrying back a note, but it's complicated enough -- if you're going to make the deal attractive to him, find out if he plans on looking at a 1031 and come prepared with information to help him navigate the hurdles that come with the seller financing.