If so was it successful or did you just get a bunch of scams/spam?

At the real estate classes we are constantly told to stay away from real estate investors and their illegal scams.

A. he is completely scamming you, and there is no advice anyone can give to get your money back.

No one is going to fake it and lose a license, get fined or get nailed in some fraudulent scam, IMO. :)

If I am calling from the other side of the country, I wonder how many sellers will not want to do business with me because I am not local, or because they want a face to face interaction, or think that I might be a scam?

1..Devote more time to networking2.

He's a scam artist looking to make more on the project than we had agreed by over-improving and over-charging.Either way, I would have had him off my project in about 10 seconds.Did you have a written contract?

After doing some research, I found that the return address was actually the Post Office and that this was a common housing scam.

Undergrads are usually year to year, grads and PhDs are 2-5 years, depending on the program.Once you have a healthy savings account for vacancies and repairs, you can devote less per month to that account (in my opinion).Lastly, my aunt in Silver Spring doesn't know any Realtors; not sure how she doesn't, but she doesn't.

I've spent a lot of money on real estate courses from real estate "guru's" and some of those courses seemed like scams that haven't helped me at all no matter how hard I worked at it so hopefully with the information on this website and the real world advice from all of you I can finally take those first steps into real estate investing!