I need to remember this is still business - after you have worked with someone for so long and formalities are no longer necessary its easy to forget that.

It's the same reason real estate agents don't want to show you more than 0-1 houses without being formally preapproved: Paperwork is a quick way to weed out many of the tire kickers, just like many landlords charge a $25 application fee to tenants which is more about weeding out time-wasters than it is the actual $25.Paperwork and a credit inquiry is basically a good faith deposit on our time.

Hello BP Community,I wanted to formally introduce myself, my name is Tiziano and i`m an aspirant investor in San Diego, CA, full disclosure i`m also a Realtor, i`m starting a wholesale business to propel me towards a broader investment career.

Josh Oaten most people need to go through a formal mentor program.

Chuck, a private money type depends on who they are, your grandmother, a business friend of the family, what they want to know is how do they get thier money back and what interest they will get along with how long you need the money.If you're calling private monet to someone who does loans, more like a hard money lender, it gets more formal, these aspects plus what J.

I suppose I lean toward Realtors because they have at least gotten formal training in RE compared to the investor types who learned guru stuff and think they know what they are doing (no offense).

This is the opportunity for your 30 second commercial.HINT: Members of the REIA will have formal name tags, new people like you will have paper nametags.

@Robert Ellis About a dozen folks, myself included, were chatting/networking until around 10 PM but it seems like a reasonable thing to try on a more formal basis so we'll give it a whirl. 

Decided that the best resource is more education; both formal and informal.

I've got a deal, that was formally approved at like 4:58 on Friday actually, where that was the solution to the wife disputing a bunch of things on her credit at the last minute (can't get a mortgage with any disputes on credit, period) -- his 2015 self employed tax returns were way sexier than his 2014, so boom let's just do Freddie Mac and look only at 2015 (12 month average, not 24), poof he suddenly has the calculated income to support the entire mortgage, bazinga take the wife (and her credit report) off the loan, im-out-of-batman-words closing in 2 weeks.