NAR has bigger fish to worry about.

This would be my first foray into non-residential investment and I'm anxious that I may be trying to swallow too big a fish. 

Basically, unless it's your own home, you CANNOT offer owner financing unless you are a Loan Originator or you hire one to do the paper work (that is much harder to do than expected).Many investors (including one in my local REIA) don't wish to bother with this, assuming that HUD as bigger fish to catch.

From what I can tell, most of these scammers are either fishing for good email addresses (once you reply to them, they've got your real email address) or they're part of the fake cashier check scam (where you get a cashiers check for more than the deposit, refund the difference, then discover that the original check was bad).

Jayson Aycock - I think the problem here is that you believe you've got a fish on your line that is bigger than you are experience dealing with.

I was just in Asheville fly fishing a few months ago!

@Rena Barron if your not tearing out dry wall to get to repairs or fishing new wires through and if your literally changing outlets, that is not a big deal at all.

The barrier to licensure is way too easy these days and there are a lot of fully licensed hacks out there.In this market, if a contractor is available to work in less than 2-3 weeks and they're inexpensive, start looking for the fish you smell. 

Would love to connect with anyone that is currently in the area and pick your brain over coffee/bbq/come on the boat and we can go fishing!

"buy a fishing pole, and 5 years worth of bait and a handbook on "how to fish", so you can forever get more tuna".Wait wait wait... don't applaude yet... hold on.