Hello to this great community, I'm glad I finally found a community around real estate.Well to introduce you, my name is Stelios 32 yo from Heraklion, Greece(Crete Island), married with 1 kid.As for Real Estate, right now I'm working on buying 2 studio apartments in my area(Heraklion).According to my newbie research in the area, the market in my town must be right now in phase 1 but I'm not 100% sure, to be honest.Bureaucracy alone is one hell of work in my country and I already work 3 months on fixing papers, waiting for tax systems to unlock so we can get some tax papers needed and much more things...Well to consider numbers, the 2 apartments are in the center of my town and they are both sold at the deep discount of 23600€ right now if you ask me this is a very rare price.

Even with Pen and paper.

I was having lunch with my Banker ( we do that once to  twice a month)  and he hands me the business Journal and says you made the paper ..

I got him to a chair, called 9-1-1, and put heavy pressure on his arm with a wrapped towel until the EMTs showed up.

Go over terms on the sale you both want to see on a scratch piece of paper .. then give that to your lawyer ..Your lawyer should draft up an agreement and send it to his sellers lawyer . they hash out the fine details and come up with a sellers agreement everyone can live with .everyone signs that at closing  Atleast that’s how mine have went 

It’s not a no-brainer anymore but tbh none of the places I bought were spike-the-football, dance in the end-zone moments when I signed the papers.

One year we discovered that mice were in our "private" closet, eating boxed and bagged food, while nesting in some towels. 

The property seems to look good on paper but I am not 100%.

My recommendation is for you to sit down with pen and paper, or a spreadsheet, and analyze every task you do in a given month.

Very common for people to group together to meet all the requirements.If you PM me I can send you a list of resources (books, podcasts, white papers ect) that have been useful to me in learning about the apartment business.Cheers