I'd say get them on by Christmas, because many people will have time off to do some home shopping, at least on the web.

If you fix a place up and add a lot of value, the owner might decide to rigorously enforce contract terms and do their best to make you violate the terms so they can void the option part of the contract.More fundamentally, though, a residence, IMHO, is not an "investment".

Check out local real estate blogs, property management company web pages and more general type publications like newspapers.

What about property management, investment property specialty, short sales/REOs, creative skills applied to web site design for brokerages, wow them with your sample marketing materials?

Completely agree...though my big point was that if a company has been scamming people for 14 years, there would certainly be more information about it on the web...which there doesn't seem to be...

I would try Googling residential real estate leases with your state in the search and see what you can borrow off the web.

Many cities have web sites that they call assessor sites that show tax value and show history of sales.

A quick look at the FEMA web page looks like it is in a flood zone (it appears to be in zone AE).

I want to start and have only the basic information I have read on the web.

He explained to me that fundamentals have been outta wack in this business since the early 90's when easy borrowing and easy money began to get out of hand.