Some ideas from others: * Bank loans are not available on some types of properties * The tight lending climate has made bank financing "out of reach" for many * Seller financing is an "age old" tradition based on private property rights * These rules would prohibit even partial seller financing – i.e. a "seller second" * According to HUD's "Residential Finance Survey" in 2001, roughly 40% of all non-farm residential properties in the US are owned free and clear * An estimated 6 million Americans own a property other than their own primary residence * An estimated 4.5% of Americans own three or more properties, many purchased solely as investment properties * 40% of non-owner occupied residences are mobile homes which are more difficult to sell with bank financing * Approximately 5% of homes in US are for sale or for lease… seller financing may be key to liquidating this inventoryThe continued success of our industry as we know it is threatened by these proposed regulatory changes.

With that said, there seems to be a glut of rentals right now where I live and landlords are scrambling to put any warm, rent-paying body they can find in a unit.

Probably the most challenging item is not so much the money as the changing regulatory environment (no pun intended).

I chose to bail on these lessons 90% of the way through the course after beginning to see how the real estate governing body has controlling oversight and accountability over each agent- and rightly so. 

I would check with your state regulatory board to find out local requirements.

Note that many areas have their own additions to Federal Fair Housing laws which add to the body of illegal discrimination.

I then went to the DBPR (florida's licensing body), and it was then that the company finally responded and remitted the money back to me.

I'm a very able body willing to work for free on a rehab over the weekends.

Any one know of any body that will lend on a Single family home 60% LTV.

Hi everyone, i am in Chattanooga i have stopped because of illness, now i want to start again, can someone tell me how to get tax delinquent list here, last i went downtown it seemed no body knew can someone help.