I've heard more and more cash buyers from China are seeking safe heaven in the bay area because of the Chinese housing bubble and the 2015/2016 Chinese stock market crash.

And for heavens sake, forget this nonsense about a new refrigerator because they saw roaches under the current one.Keep what is known as the "Happy Clause" in your back pocket. 

@Russell Brazil Search for 124 Seventh E and all will come up.

In other words, your first deal is a "died and gone to heaven" scenario.

Heaven forbid, but how many projects that won't cash flow or don't produce decent ROI at 4 or 5% will cash flow or produce sufficient ROI at .5 or 1% interest?  

If there's an accident on your jobsite (heaven forbid), you would be identified and classified as an "employer - anyone who hires or causes work to be done" and you could be subject to comply with OSHA regulations for the construction industry.  

@William WongFor heaven's sake, do not rush out and blindly set up an LLC like I see many others do without consulting anyone first.  

Oh heavens no!

Hi @Kyle Potswald, Well come on, another Kyle from the city I’m from, Lakeville, it’s a match made in heaven, lol.

From my perspective, those who are successful starting out in this arena do well not because they planned the process via asking BP members how to do it or paying some unknown commodity crazy $ for training, or even investing in software before a deal is done -- heavens NO -- but because they actually had the balls to CLOSE a single (good?