I didn't have referrals to work with and I had to learn about the markets through trial and error.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation lists variations of short sale flipping as real estate fraud.

So yes, I guess ther is BS when want to get away from the focus of a comment and point out possible variations to prove an obtuse comment.

Good ol' trial and error...Thing is, with real estate, most of us don't have the financial ability to make too many mistakes.

For 'pop' rooms I would use the darker variations on the paint sample card.

I have never used hard money lenders before but based on the research I have done, there seams to be a lot of variation in how they all do business.

My goal is to purchase my first property this year and am diving headfirst into learning as much as I can ahead of my first trial run. 

We had a bench trial today and the tenant has brought a council from the Illinois Tenant Association or something like this.

I read many of the books by this prolific author in the 1990s (most are variations on a similar theme but found them readable and especially good for newbies in REI).

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