Originally posted by @Rod Hanks:Call the listing agent.

I was recently on Rod Khleif's podcast and he mentioned that in 2009,  he lost a boatload w/his thousands of SFR portfolio while his MF is the only thing that held up.In MF at its essence: less risk, more scale, forced appreciation, accelerated depreciation, commercial valuation model make it a more attractive business model than SFRs.  

I have heard so many different perspectives on how to save for reserves my head is spinning, so if you don't mind qualifying your strategy I would really appreciate it.My plan was to do my own maintenance as I've been subcontracting for a friend that past four years and have a ton of valuable experience helping him do odd jobs that translate well to rentals, so I am not sure how much I would need to save for maintenance in that scenario. 

Its a bunch of elaborate marketing and a great web page for buying mutual whole life and using your policy value (cash value) to buy more real estate then using your real estate and paying back your whole life plan loan higher than the rate youre borrowing at so you can keep rinising and repeating.In theory you grow your wealth up more and more and build up your RE portfolio and you in essence "become your own banker," AKA nelson nash's book.Cash flow banking is a new marketing spin off for infinite banking (nelson nash), cash flow banking (website above),  private reserves strategy (anderson advisors in NV/WA),  bank of yourself (kim butler), and etc.The problem is funding your WHL (whole life policy) and every dollar you start out with hits huge drag because every dollar contributed only nets around 65-80 cents.

For the mileage, I created a spreadsheet and I’m going to have the date, mileage amount, trip reason, and whether it pertains to the entire house or just the rental unit.But what if, for example, we go to buy curtain rods for the rental, shower mats for our unit, an exterior light for the whole building, and then stop at my mom’s house just to visit?

Originally posted by @Traci Lovelace:Originally posted by @Rod Yarger:Go back on the title agent, assuming you got title insurance.If you didn't get title insurance, then you are right. 

And another very important factor determine how much money there is available so you don't spin you wheels.  

Rod Joseph and Russ Brantley You guys should also check out the local mastermind meet ups on "unofficial BP" via meetup.com.

Stop spinning your wills trying to find the deal that you can not seem to locate.

I instantly imagined myself controlling a horse on the carriage with 2 ropes.Rick seem to be connecting the dots from both perspectives of creditors and from perspective of investors who creditors typically deal with when it comes to investors paying off first position lien or second mortgage liens, and stating that there are multiple ways of transferring deal using 2 strategies ... either using strategy of finalizing transaction to go through the final stages of probate (during either of the 3 stages) or buying off the lien judgement, depending not the equity...The probate concept of pre, open and closed state all have conditions that can be favorable or non favorable in relationship to you closing on the deal and getting it under contract.To be honest I am also a bit new to probate concept and tax liens and judgements and subject to types of acquisitions.All of this real estate Mumbo jumbo makes my head to be honest spin sideways.However, the multi dimensional factors and art of the deal from the standpoint of multiple variables and it’s inner dependencies indeed makes real estate investing quiet interesting endeavor to follow.As you dive deeper and deeper into variety of strategies... you gain compounded knowledge that in reality most certainly can be amazingly beneficial to folks who are interested in wanting to outgun their completion.In fact I would not be surprised at all with Rick stating that straddle play method of controlling the deals can outgun rehabbers using the power of negotiation.However... imagined if you can intersect the dots across multiple strategies and be able to rehab it... how cool would that be?