If you can’t devise a winning online and offline marketing effort, your dreams will be largely unrealized and your destiny will be held hostage by unfulfilled potential.There are a number of offline marketing strategies you can employ to encourage possible buyers and sellers of residential real estate to contact you.

My husband always tells me I worry too much, but I certainly don't want to have a much bigger problem on my hands should this happen repeatedly...any advice, help, or encouragement would be greatly appreciated!

I'm saying that I would RATHER encourage loan mods by the banks than the government take over the loan or take over the property in whatever this bailout "plan" turns out to be.

I'm afraid it may encourage the second group to stop making payments and it may encourage future buyers to put down as little as possible.The plan may reduce the bleeding but won't heal the wound.

I'd like to encourage some of the more experienced wholesalers out there to add to this, let others know what's wrong, what's right, etc.

Thanks all for the encouragement.

I encourage you to re-read my post.

I'm an aspiring, new RE Investor with tons of desire, will, and drive; the problem is, I have no guidance, help, encouragement.

I may not stay a realtor, but I do intend to continue investing in RE, and would most definately use a RE agent.By the way, I have never met an agent who intentially encourages a seller to inflate their asking price.

I would encourage you to get a book titled, “How to Be Your Own Contractor,” as it will often take an entire book to give you a proper grounding on the subject.