NY, NJ, CT :roll:

It's all a matter of preference, both strategies work but you need to figure out what your strategy is going to be before you jump in.Spend some time drawing up a business plan and stick with it until you find something that can be improved upon, then make the change to your plan that is necessary and roll with it until you find another improvement.

:roll: But buyers have a much stronger negotiating position in the current market conditions - and I had assumed the same applied in most of the USA now - so I would have thought that both vendors and realtors would have to be a bit more flexible, no?

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Spend a little of your money on yellow bandit signs and a thick black marker, set some signs out in areas you would like to invest in, and start the ball rolling talking to sellers.

You Asked: the seller didn't know how to determine the value of his property, and was ripping himself off; 1A He knows the value and is selling all his properties and rolling it into a 1031.

Hopefully I can persuade my friend to join me in investing, but if not, no big deal...he can roll out of bed to go to work...as I roll over!

A few suggestions which I think would enhance biggerpockets (some taken from vBulletin), in no particular order:* multi-quote - the ability to select multiple posts for quoting* kudos - ability to register approval of a post, or agreement with a point, and then count these and somehow rate posters - just provides more incentive to share and try to be constructive and helpful * ability to view the forum in wide screen format (maybe you can but I can't see how - the forum text only takes up about 30% of the width of my screen)* more/better emoticons - happy to suggest some if you like ;)* also I'd like emoticons inserted where the cursor is, rather than always at the end of the text (ie if you edit and want to insert an emoticon in an earlier para, you seem to be only able to do it by cutting and pasting the emoticon, which is always inserted at the very end of the whole post)* I imagine this is related to the fact that whenever you format some text, your cursor is moved to the very end of the post; I'd rather the cursor be left where it was just prior to applying formatting (eg bold)* ability to report/hide abusive posts, to try and stop conversations degenerating into slanging matches :roll: Love the forum - thanks, Josh.

Roll it over to a self-directed account and start buying RE!

Trying to get the ball rolling.