I don't think I'd be willing to do out-of-state (I'm in Florida, so my state is already huge) - but is there any type of business, investor, or whatever, that works on a large scale buying rentals and/or flips that I could either joint-venture with in some fashion (perhaps I'd get 25% for providing the deal, and you'd get 75% for bringing funding/management).

Is it because they are just fashionable - or are they really inherently better?  

But, in general, I've organized the book in a step-by-step fashion for how I believe a new investor should approach their first deals.

Do you look for websites and technology, or do you prefer the old fashion, fax/phone/email spreadsheet?

Folks, its unfortunate that we don't encounter more good old fashion gentleman like Chris int the business world, it would be a better place.

We did most of our houses in a slow-steady-yawn sort of way, some of them by rehabbing a house with good bones while living in it, and many of the rentals by saving up down payments the old fashioned way. 

@Curt PowellHi Curtyou can do the good old fashioned method, pick up the phone and call complexes, or listings in your market.  

Don't know if there are other mortgage companies operating in a similar fashion in other areas.http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/2849/blog_posts/21931-how-to-buy-a-house-with-zero-money-down-getting-a-loan_________Here's the note I'd sent to Denver Mortgage Company, to which I received no reply.Hi Natasha –I was reading a post on the Bigger Pockets forum by Monica Breckenridge regarding loans she has completed with your company, refi’ing out of hard money with no seasoning into 30-yr fixed rate financing below 5%.

NC is about ten years behind FL so we're still doing it the old-fashioned way -- on the courthouse steps.Which can be advantageous.

No, without student loans we won't have as many art, fashion, and teaching students wasting tax dollars.