The investor will likely want security in some fashion.

Much better to get your own financial house in order so you can buy a house in the conventional fashion rather than engage in a lease/option.

Hi Amber, welcome to BP -- certainly a wealth of information, but the challenge is to find and absorb the information in an organized and somewhat sequential fashion.

Wear out some shoe leather, I know it's the old fashioned way, but it works.

. :)Karen, tell the Red Cross (started here) they shouldn't have the International Red Cross.I support public schools, having leased building might be a good idea in some places.

That sort of was the issue with Madoff, he was doing his own internal accounting.

After interning at a local CPA firm and talking with numerous Big Four professionals, I came to realize that although I did well in accounting and took full advantage of accounting clubs and associations, real estate was my true passion.

Sheila Griffin, I also have an intern who is very close to his first deal in the North Texas area.

BiggerPockets is clearly a great resource for real estate investors with any strategy and of any experience level.BACKGROUND:I graduated with my B.B.A. in Finance at 19 years old and was fortunate enough to find a decent paying job right out of school as a business analyst.While pursuing my degree, I interned at two small real estate investment partnerships.

The "land trust" has no special distinction in the Internal Revenue Code and would be a simple, complex, or grantor trust depending on the terms of the trust instrument.