I am a business man and am use to cultivating relationships with people for different reasons, at the first meeting should I stick my neck out there and start asking who the cash buyers are?

Dean Teter   /Section 8 is hud sponsored housing for those of an income level that qualify for it.rent control like you have in major metro cities or areas.. in your neck of the woods think Berkley and SF.. along with mobile home parks in certain areas they can have rent control as well.Rent control and Hud or section 8 usually do not go together in the same context

@Brandon Turner ...hopefully I'm in your neck of the woods or in @Joshua Dorkin's before you guys come to LA.

For a safe pair of hands with massive muscle to back them up you cannot compare Memphis invest with any other player.  

I know several great agents in your neck of the woods - why not flip in GA?

That's fine, so long as the scopes of work are not overlapping and a schedule is created that doesn't cause either contractor to be bottle-necked by the other.  

They have bank regulators breathing down their necks and must underwrite loans conservatively or lose their jobs or worse yet be accused of fraudulent activity by the feds for not following protocols and get into legal trouble.

Of course I will monitor the FSBO's and investigate the reasons they are up for sale to see if I can swoop in.How about your neck of the woods?

You'll find there are a lot of members here from our neck of the woods.

When a seller offers their house for sale using the auction method of marketing, you just never know what they will accept to get that monkey off their back.I would suggest:Attend real estate auctions every day, foreclosures and and owner ordered salesSit in Rent Court 2 hours a week to listen to the cases, talk to owners after their case is heard and the judge finds against them and puts the rent into escrow.....talk about motivation.......yep it's thereSit in Housing Court, do the same as above; housing court is where owner are summons to due to failure to abate a violationFarm - walk around neighborhoods with a clip board in hand and a camera around your neck, look important.