Personally, I prefer to put my money to work vice having it locked up in a property but whatever works for you.

My mom's boss is the president of a commercial construction company and said if I found a deal he would finance it.

Some places might be better for investing and not owner occupy and vice versa.

1) Check out the price of a uhaul from LA to dallas and vice versa.  

He is also the president of our local REI group that meets in Fayetteville and he is a super nice, helpful man. 

Heck look at our president, Obama is a chain smoker.  

HOA president seems nice and reasonable, but who knows...We like both neighborhoods but that Montana area just feels a bit nicer...

I actually live in one of them and am the condo association president.

John,The way we started our relationship at the bank we went in and set down with the president of the bank and explain what we like to do and ask for a chance to prove ourselves.John we did get turn down at first but we went bank to bank until we got a yes.

I think if a realtor is working with a new investor, the wiifm comes into play heavily or vice versa, a veteran investor is working with a realtor who is new to working with investors and hates the amount of work they have to put in.I've been on both sides and I think I wrote some things on this before, but this goes both ways.