Those of us who were FORCED to bail out the banks when the whole scheme unraveled. 

As for paint I recommend painting the entire interior agreeable gray with white trim as it's the most popular color scheme in the US right now. 

I would like to seek out an interior decorator to help develop a theme and color scheme, then I can help find appropriate furniture and nick nacks.

@Matt RuttenbergI buy antique furniture from yard sales and sand them down and do custom paint with new hardware to match whatever color scheme I want.

Does anyone know if the IVRI group is a legit real estate group that offers free training and is not a scheme?

Speaking of being in the business, don't know what your day job might be, but if you begin making more money or a significant amount of your income comes from buying and selling notes, the IRS can determine that you are in the business, from there it goes down hill.So, IMO, 99% of all the note buying/trading books and schemes written are probably only good for starting a fire in the fireplace, they will probably be laced with bad information or illegal tactics.

Dodd-Frank, Section 1442, counseling services: Read what constitutes act in the capacity of a counselor, saving someone from foreclosure.Giving a homeowner the impression that you have some method or scheme or service that assists them in avoiding foreclosure is a covered activity. :)

I recently posted that some lending and sales schemes were predatory.First, predatory practices does not have a legal definition, generally you will find examples of strategies or activities that are deemed to be predatory rather than one simple definition.Simply put, predatory activities place a buyer or borrower at a financial disadvantage.

If I were going to be a guru, I would probably enlist others as a third party influence who would agree with my positions and ask questions of them that were staged to my marketing scheme, but I'm not one, LOL!

Using a generic email addy like info@, ceo@, management@ may work for craigslist or ads, but I'd never use an address like that for personal correspondence.For any kind of personal dealings, I'd use your first name@ or first initial.last name@ or somthing like that.Otherwise, it is fairly unimportant in the scheme of things.