If there's a fire over the weekend, is the seller responsible for repairs since he technically still owned the house?

They want you to close using them, so you technically 'pay' for it in your title fees when you close.

Yes you are working under the brokerage so technically they are the brokerages clients.

It could be that they viewed your ability to cover the deal was limited to hald the payments remaining.They could have had other issues as well, with the contract, buyer, collateral, concentrations of business in that type of contract or area, your ability to cover the deal or other issues.Lastly, buying a certain number of payments is much like simply making you a loan taking the contract as collateral, the discount is the interest you pay, but technically not a loan but a contract purchase.

I've been reading material (mostly BP blog posts and forum entries at this point) and I'm very excited about the possibilities of investing in real estate.I currently work as a technical consultant in Raleigh.

You go unrepresented (represent yourself, technically), and the listing agent can deal with all the paperwork and help you through the process.But, you won't have anyone representing you, so you should only do this if your 100% comfortable representing yourself.

I see a problem often in REI - it's that people often use the website, business cards, or other technical (and less important) things get in the way.

I figured that the process is still the same since technically the residents of the home are still the owners.

While some offices may be better than others due to staffing, I will tell you the Austin manager has been nothing but a problem and the COO in Dallas has not been very helpful either.I should have heeded the red flags when I first signed with them.

I was hoping someone can help me with these terms, specifically the difference between in-place NOI and Stabilized NOI. Also I would like to know the difference between In-place cap rate and stabilized cap rate. I can...