This seamless transaction capitalized on strategic market insight and a prime opportunity.

Sure, if you have an actual guest -- like your mother -- visiting and she breaks her leg and tries to sue you, then a regular homeowner's policy would cover that, but not if that guest were part of a rental transaction.

This helped our CPA know exactly what transactions related to the house.

A common pitfall is treating each deal as a standalone transaction instead of connecting acquisitions, financing, and project management as part of one cohesive process.

If that happens during the spring, this is could be a devastating RE transactional year.

Must have tools: you need some type of evaluation metric and/or tool that you are comfortable with and are willing to walk about from a deal if it doesn't meet your requirements.also, a deal is a term for a transaction, not to be confused with a "good deal".

nothing new  or novel  in most transactions.. 

I am in it and feel it is worth it as they have groups all over the country who, with experience transaction coordinators and funding groups, and even closers to help you along the way.

Recently, management changed it so both loans can be made with one payment versus two separate transactions. 

Meanwhile, the sellers who are most likely to offer creative financing are normally the owners of  real estate that have issues.....condition.....low barrier/over supply market......or perhaps pricing issue, and one of these factors is why its not marketable in a arms length transaction and why creative financing would be accepted.