Like Will, I use the Adobe Suite of tools (including PDF Writer) to edit and sign all my contracts, addenda and docs.

It can work many differ ways, The title company may have a notary in the state where your client lives that can go to their house and sign all the documents, or the title company can mail them the packet and they sign all docs, have it notarized and Fed Ex it back.

Or do you want to let it slide and send the signal that your soft and can be taken advantage of, a very slippery slope.

On one hand, that's a pretty strong signal for what the market is... on the other, following the crowd makes competition tough... but to go against the crowd you're essentially saying you're smarter.My personal strategy is to follow the market and simply try to carve out better than average deals.

If you take the latter reasoning and set up a new company for long-term holdings I think it would be very easy to signal to the IRS what your intent is by taking title at the outset in the proper entity.

At five o'clock in the afternoon we met at the title company to sign all documents.

Understandable, Bienes Raices but you could always upload a photo from a distance or a nice nature photo :) Anything to keep me from staring that that mysterious man with the giant dollar sign all day!

However, in dealing with so many buyers, there are those that will "raise their hand" and follow up enough with me signalling the opportunity to go find something for them based on their needs.

Yes it can signal criminals to a vacant home but alot of my applicants come from driving by seeing the sign or someone they know seeing the signI personally leave a light on when I have it vacant.

I know this is an ad click revenue site & you need thousands of users,but it is tedious to wade through the posts to get to the good ones..The signal to noise ratio is terrible.I just get so tired of seeing TV,hearing radio,books on this stuff.If it's isn't get rich quick at poker,it's flipping houses.The rich dad guy appears to be the biggest scam of all.From what i've heard,he appears to live in a universe where there are no bad deals,bad tenants or housing bubbles.Ask your RE agent how many deals have been backed out of & time wasted trying to do business with 1 of these seminar gurus.