you take over their mortgage on an informal basis.control the building with a skinny contract offer subject to a private or public treatise (public auction), assign your contract for a profit before you have to go to settlementseller refinances, keeps the cash and you joint venture with seller to share the profits after you do your thing to the building (win-win for all)package your deal and present it to relative (with money), your dentist, funeral director, doctor or local bookie - get your private financing - heck with conventional lenders - most are predators anyhowoffer a "hybrid" contract - that is where you offer one price but give seller a percentage of your net profit when building is sold.ask for owner financing that is secured by other properties you own - this way you have anpotential free and clear property that you can pull cash from - and keepoffer the seller what they may want, a car, truck or other material items that are easy to finance (same as owner financing, but easier)Can you think of other ways to accomplish a profitable situation when buying - we'd love to hear themGood luck ---- Charles (he loves votes)

Three months after that had a device put in my heart to close a hole that was found by my doctors at the Mayo clinic.  

We are from NYC (downtown Manhattan) however, we are not looking in our area for investments (for obvious reasons :))We wanted some advice:1- First off, I wanted people's opinions on the best niches for us:We are a couple, my husband is a doctor,and I own a food business (start up)We want to get into real estate to help fund my business and to get him out of medicine!

have you considered looking into places like lakeland, eastern hillsborough county or pasco county. a little more reasonable and as the city expands and rentals rise alot of people are moving further out. lakeland is booming right now, they are recruiting doctors from around the country.

Even if you haven't lived in your home a total of two years out of the last five, you're still eligible for a partial exclusion of capital gains if you sold because of a change in your employment, or because your doctor recommended the move for your health, of if you're selling it during a divorce or due to other unforeseen circumstances such as a death in the family or multiple births.

(I count 2 lawyers and 1 doctor among my tenants.)Be very careful about TK  investing.

I first became suspicious because the man that I was working with just had a baby and he said that he needed to take him to a doctor's appointment. 

Want to drop one third of Medicare recipients or cut payments to hospitals and doctors by a third?

However he has not produced a doctor’s report, or health inspector’s report or any other support to his claims.

Unless you're going to be a doctor or lawyer or something specific that requires a degree (and it doesn't sound like you are), I'd say drop out.