I think if a person becomes OBSESSED with anything, whether it is money, food, work, collecting stamps, etc..., it leads to an unbalanced life.

While it's not a free ticket to loans, the underwriting is much different is certain respects, but after a number of successful transactions, a NP can almost have a rubber stamp approval.

Marie - The Deed is filed "technically" when it is "STAMPED" by the Recorder of Deeds.

The fix isn't taking away food stamps, it's creating jobs.

So, IMO for someone to sit in some title loan joint and actually make loans over the counter, without formal education in the lending arena, you'd need about 6 months to a year of experience before any manager would be rubber stamping you loans, more like a year to get a rubber stamp approval.My time lines are based on repetitious business, not doing some deal twice a month, but more like ten deals a day, 5 days a week. 200 deals a month, that means you have passed by about 1,200 loans before you have seen enough deals to guide yourself through the maze of lending at that level.RE lending will take a couple years really to be a good originator, that is not underwriting loans but walking the loan through the required process and address issues of concern, like title or appraisal issues.

Doc stamps at less than 1% seems cheaper than 10k.

For every high school dropout that 'made it' there are 100 that have a food stamp card.

Plus there is no stamp duty here in the US where in Oz its quite high, the costs for coming over to the US are less than what we would have paid for that.

We have recently had two "recycling" businesses closed because the recyclers did not check ID's, did not follow procedures, and literally bought complete spools of wire stamped with the local electric company's name on it.

It is as simple as transferring your stock certificates in your corporation - no closing costs, no documentary stamps, no recording fees.Owners Flexibility:When you hold properties in a Land Trust, it makes it easy to have multiple owners.