Purchase price: $328,000 Off market 4 plex in paseo arts district area What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

In the very nice subdivision outside of greystone, a highend gated community, i saw a current apprasial about a week ago with market value of a nice 2100sqft garden home @$193,000....paying taxes around $1,000....not calculating deductions.....not bad...some its even lower....areas which don't even pay municipal tax.....cut an extra %30 off the property tax bracket....That about sums it up as far as my eyes can see...yeah-Art

Currently the only degrees that are here is liberal arts, accounting, and business administration.

If anyone knows anything about panic or read "the art of war" you will know that panic is contagious.

If you prefer the arts, or prefer to invest in the ebb and flow of a full-sized City, then Lowell is the one for you.

We don't have deals killed because of the color of the cabinets or other fickleness.We are able to develop strong relationships with our clientsWe get repeat businessWe are numbers/systems people, not interior designers or therapists.Selling retail flips is not an easy business and an art in itself.  

Personally, I'm partial to the North Collinwood neighborhood around the Waterloo arts district area on the east side in the 44110 zip code. 

Wholesaling is the art of finding off market or below market properties and assigning the contract to an end buyer while collecting a "finders fee".

"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu is also great, get one with historical commentary as it has some great examples and anecdotes of the principles in action.This may seem like a weird recommendation, but "The Dispossessed" is also great and will change your worldview on compassion and empathy.

There's an art to the deed in lieu deal (and you'd better believe, it is a deal).