Being licensed enables you to not only serve investors, but also retail clients, which means more $$$ in the long run.

refid=WV7M9DKPZ Other IdeasNewest service is being able to text enable land lines including your current number.

That gives you a glimpse of how they will treat your property, and enables you to run away from THEM before its too late!

I know the area and have a fantastic grip on what's been sold and at what price.Unfortunately, I need an agent to submit on my behalf, so the dilemma is to stick to my guns (which is what I ended up doing) or cave to the not-so-brights that hold the power of "relationship" access which enables them bid submission powers that I don't have.I just hope I'm deciding right.

I especially like what Greg B. said about possibly finding the missing link or being someones missing link that will enable more profitable business.

Freeing up that capital has enabled us to turn around and purchase a rental that made sense from a cash flow perspective.

An MBA enables you with a level of financial sophistication, a comfort with numbers and terms, that many don't possess.

This solution has enabled me to view trip expenses, completed analysis and questionaires and more on a near realtime basis, even when I am 2200 miles north in Ardmore, OK!

Fannie Mae Homepath loans are a narrow exception that permit rehab financing to be built in, and only applies to select Fannie Mae REOs.To maximize leverage in these cases where you're doing a fair amount of rehab (say $8K or more), while still getting the conventional loan and the low fixed rates, you could do a few different things.1) Buy and rehab the property in cash, then apply for a conventional loan under the new "delayed financing rule", which enables you to finance up to 70% of the new post-rehab appraised value, but the loan cannot exceed the total of your original purchase price plus closing costs on the new loan.

I'm currently intending to use property managers, realizing that'll cut in to my margins, but at least might enable me to maintain my 8-5 career while adding properties to my collection.