Where I live you are in some pretty rough neighborhoods if you're looking at anything under 300k, and that's true 2 hours in any direction from me. At

Feel free to PM me at your convenience.Congratulations once again, and I wish you the best of luck in your real estate investing career.

I was driving there and he asked to meet me at an intersection near where he works. 

(Scenario): I find a seller, he agrees to sell his house to me at a good price, I plan to assign the contract to an end buyer.

With 4 people, risk is spread and there's enough meat on the bone if we buy deals right.

Hey Nick,thanks for for welcoming me!at

My favorite expression in cooking:  first you get the pan hot, then you put the meat in. 

In fact, it's standard to "leave meat on the bone" for the next buyer, so they deliberately will not complete every possible improvement to the property, and then the property can be marketed as such to the next buyer, along the lines of "25 units have been upgraded and the rents are $50 higher.

I use Ally (not paid to say this) and lately with the way rates have been moving, they've increased the rate for me at least once a month since January (1.65%).

My newbie question has to do with the red flag of one major employer.