For instance, if you sign a one year option with him, and he doesn't exercise that option within that year, that contract disappears, and then you sign another one after that. 

You can put $5000 into mobile home parks, $5000 in shopping malls, $5000 in apartment buildings, $5000 in medical offices and $5000 in self-storage for instance rather than $25,000 in one single family home.REITS should theoretically return less because you're paying for a professional management team that has years of experience with that type of investment.

Try a google search looking up the name of the community with "flood" for instance "Bound Brook NJ" and see if you can find anything about a flood the community might have had or you can look into calling the local floodplain manager and ask them if the home has flooded before.

For instance, in my current deal, I have to pay back the seller on taxes paid YTD in my closing costs.

In this instance, the borrower will have five financed properties because the financed building lot does not need to be included in the property count.

Welcome, @Dennis Ranck if you are in the Memphis area we should grab some of our world famous BBQ!

I've heard there may be creative ways to make other money that is already mine work for me in this instance (i.e.

Consider an incentive (trade) rather than a straight up discount (giveaway), either offer a lower rent amount if they set up their rent payment on "auto pay", or offer a rebate if rent is paid on time for 12 months straight, month 13 rebate they earn can be a $600 BestBuy card for instance. 

For instance, I’m looking at a local foreclosure and the price is $90k, and the county website shows they took back the property at 90k.

For instance, if the house has no furnace and there's a higher FHA offer, then it will not be accepted because they already know the financing will not qualify.Two completely identical offers, one cash and one hard money .. yes cash is superior.