The bank has said to go pound sand.

I also have a referral incentive program if you know of any person interested in selling their unwanted property. 

You can make money using an agent, it is just harder to do.......... there are other ways.I am a broker and understand the agent culture........it is an honorable business......it is a lot of hard and long work that agents are involved in.......it is sometimes a thankless job.As investors we need to find the unwanted, unlisted ugly real estate with equity and with motivated sellers; houses, commercial and non-conforming properties to survive in this competitive real estate business.

I do wholesaling as overflow or unwanted inventory, as I do higher volume of deals in bulk I don't want to cherrypick one SFH at a time, but other investors do, so I always know single unit deals that want to be sold, and investors who want in on a unit like that, so I wholesale it to that investor for about 10%.

It saves you from having to deal with a lot of the unwanted responses and having to educate any callers about lease options.  

Those two things will act as a slingshot in your investing career.Start pounding the pavement & calling FSBO's or places that advertise that they're for rent & begin weeding through those to see if there are any burnt out landlords or estate sales that would be willing to owner finance.

Maybe they will owner finance any big profit they are making or maybe it's not even on the market and go after those first whcih might now be rental homes, unwanted by the owner who is now stationed far away.  

My board is back in Boston and I am currently losing some extra pounds.

For example, landlord must approve of pet (dogs must be a non-aggressive breed and under 25 pounds.

So I have decided to invite everyone to come on this forum and pound their chest just to prove to Newbies, and other nay Sayers that there is such a Monster as "No Money Down" deals in Real Estate.