After you get to know him, and he you, you can ask intelligent questions about REO...for starters...and it won't appear self-serving.A source like this isn't only good for REO's...and, in all honesty, in the centralized banking world he probably doesn't even deal with them directly...but what's the first thing a new couple moving to town does?

Unfortunately, I am not a tax expert and can't have an intelligent discussion with you about my tax situation.

I want say that I'm not intelligent enough to eventually learn all the legal in an outs.

It contains a detailed Cash Flow Analysis module along with several other modules that enable you to make intelligent investment decisions and store relevant documentation and contact info for each property.

I work for a VERY intelligent business design, but living in an area for just under 2 years now, i know VERY little people.

Similar for signal intelligence, aka phone tapping.

Recently, I've been having some terrific conversations with some of the most intelligent men and women I've ever met.

There are a lot of intelligent and experienced individuals from every side of real estate on here and you can learn a lot and hopefully help as well.Again, welcome to biggerpockets!

With a little intelligence and even without outside insight and wisdom (as from this forum) it would only take a couple rehabs to figure what to do and what not to do.People do make real money at doing #1 and #4 (I'm one of them :D ), but you caught on to the key very quickly.

I am sure you can find relatively intelligent people on both sides that will tell that their way is the best way, but it does comes down to balancing your personal risk versus reward comfort level.