In exchange, we provide them a list of weekly leads of home sellers looking to sell.At this point we've had two different agents that have agreed to work with us in this capacity, but neither have held up their end of the bargain.Thinking that perhaps they wanted to see if we'd hold up to our end of the bargain first, we sent several leads to both agents, but we never received anything back.

I've been in municipal government, an independent broker dealing with state government with access to information, in federal government in two agencies HUD and FDIC, all had rules concerning public speaking in an official capacity, heck, even the military has regulations concerning public comments.

Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions and the advice.RE: #1 - I am not an agent (or attorney for that matter) but work in a similar capacity.

It usually requires a few consecutive years of working as a full time "real estate professional" of whatever capacity to even be able to sit for a brokers exam.

There is a chance that if you don't look at both loans as a big picture you will further reduce your borrowing capacity for the new primary residence.

In fact, during the crazy Condotel years, there was a lot of arguments going on about whether the investment was truly real estate in nature or a form of security due to the ownership restrictions and the reliance on another's management capacity for cash flow.

I believe that real estate has a limitless capacity for success due largely in part of two groups of people: (1) Those selling their houses and (2) Renters that grew tired of renting.

If you look at "Better" simply in terms of quality, while one contractor may have the capacity to produce high quality craftsmanship at lower rates, but requiring a great deal of time, there are experienced high end contractors who can produce high quality much faster, but at a greater cost.

The purpose of the secondary market is to provide liquidity to the lenders to provide more capacity or an on-going capacity to make loans to borrowers in the primary market.

Joel can pick at the tenant, sounds like they have been doing fine but I'd look at them personally as to capacity as well as the company.