To me, these anecdotes are more than just isolated tales of misery and woe - they illustrate patterns of behavior, influence, persuasion, rationalization and more across all of the REI market, and that's just fully fascinating.

Sometimes tenants just need to bit of "persuasion" to open lines of communication.

There are sale skills you can learn, persuasion etc, but I am not the salesman type.Good luck.

@Dennis M.I’m of the same persuasion as you but would like a real estate attorney to weigh in with the actual verbiage of the Dodd-Frank bill that addresses this.

I'm also of the persuasion to pay them back no matter what happens on the investment side.I guess I'm thinking for a retiree, in return for the 50k of offering something like $500 p/m repayment at 10%.

Now, after being in real estate, I realize that these programs are EXCEPTIONAL at sales and persuasion and they know what insecurities to feed off of.  

But your numbers are more persuasive !

Chalk it up to folks of the local religious persuasion being naive to certain sinful substances and confusing them with other things.

Here at BP, most folk are very much of the persuasion that buying property with other people's money (ie.

@Scott KimberlyAs others have said, it's not just about doing the first deal, it's about networking and connections, your team, your lenders, your credit, your persuasiveness and tenacity, etc.