I wanted to share a great post with everyone from the BiggerPockets blog by Winston Westbrook, which details how to increase the odds your Freddie Mac / Home Steps REO offers will be accepted. Check it out and be sur...

With twenty-five real-world stories from seasoned investors across the country, this book uncovers the secrets behind unbelievable real estate deals, from sourcing and funding to profiting.

He recently received his real estate license, and we are in search of  investors in the Asheville, North Carolina area (we are actually about twenty minutes south of Asheville, in Hendersonville). 

My previous twenty years experience is entirely in hospitality. 

The second might come in and say it'll be twenty-three thousand.

Then another, and another, and twenty more.

I sure wish twenty years ago I would have followed the advice I am giving you... back then, twenty years was an eternity so I wasn't as concerned about my future. 

You are their new landlord, who ponied up the scratch to buy the roof over their head, because they've been in this country twenty years and never realized the risks that come with not owning that roof.As soon as you point any of this out to them, however, I guarantee they'll be ready with another set of excuses or some general excuse about how this is all about landlord greed (and not their own outsized stupidity over decades).I am an American Born Abroad and an infant immigrant to this country.

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Twenty-five years later, we're holding 17 rental units (5 SFH, 2 duplexes, 1 eight-plex) that are all cash flowing.