and send you a magazine, and have trainings and seminars for reasonable prices.

In the first instance, you bought the property with $105,000 of instant equity.

For instance, he lets all desk phone calls go to voice mail and just checks e-mail once a week.

For instance if Coutrywide is the owner, they refuse to pay the selling side commission to the buyer if the buyer is the agent.

For instance, find a property were the owner is willing to finance and use required repairs for downpayment.

Depending on the size of your market and how sophisticated the MLS database may be, you could try to find a Realtor who is expert at working it to save both of you some time.I set up several different searches for distress property, including wild-card searches by owner (anything with "bank" in the name, for instance), agent remarks with terms like "as is" or "handyman" or "seller motivated," and listings of agents whom I know work with REOs.

For instance, if the furnace needs replacement, would you expect your tenant buyer to get it replaced?

Call a member of local HOA boards (pres or sec, for instance) (or developers) to see which ones companies have worked with and which have been more satisfactory than others.

I'm going to do some TV spots, radio plays, magazine ads, new paper ads & any other publication that I come across.

For instance, growing now might mean having 10 triplexes.