Barrier to entry for being a real estate agent as far as I can tell for my state is like 200 dollars for the application fee, licensing examination, fingerprinting and the background check.

@John Colin RogersWow.Upon finishing college, Martin Luther King, Junior received Graduate Record Examination scores indicating that his verbal English abilities were in the bottom 25% of all university graduates.King did not go on to write and speak in pidgin to change the course of American history and convince a generation of "the power of communication."

You need to be able to not only read an appraisal, but read between the lines and examine the values.You don't need to be an accountant or a finance major, but you do need to be able to read a financial statement if you deal with any business or self employed borrowers.

A yes/ no second column so it will be easy to mark if the repair is needed for the property you are examining.

Stone back to visit and inspect the work site and that she can come with a skilled, experienced business attorney, construction engineer, and forensic accountant of her choosing so they can take as much time as they need to examine all the books, inventory, sites, equipment, employment records, etc., and investigate all of the claims made by the folks who are pitching this investment opportunity. 

Each situation can be examined closer.

I do not recommend using anyone but an LA County probate attorney lest you get "home-boyed" by probate examiner long before judge or commissioner sees file.Nothing against the Riverside attorneys as I've been the featured speaker four separate occasions for the probate section and only non-attorney member of the group.There is more to the law than trying to hire an attorney on the cheap.

The downstairs tenant then told me that he couldn't record the upstairs tenant being loud, as his phone wouldn't be able to pick it up.My thinking here is that the downstairs tenant just doesn't like the upstairs tenant and wants him out, as any cell-phone today would be able to pick up loud stomping or a screaming match if it's keeping my downstairs tenants awake.So, short story long, I examined the damage to the door frame and concluded it was caused by the downstairs tenant pounding on the door and am planning on sending him a bill for the damage.

Anytime a new disclosure is provided you have time to examine it.

Huelsman is also an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/law_trends_news_practice_area_e_newsletter_home/0509_business_predatorylending.html