Also Amanda's book "Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real estate Investor" published by BiggerPockets is a great resource.These resources might be a good place for you to start.

I became familiar with Bigger Pockets while searching for professional real estate books on Amazon and noticed more than a handful being published by Bigger Pockets. 

I think those lower bids are for properties where the lender thinks they have a short at collecting a deficiency.The opening bids are published Monday afternoon by the public trustee (a county office.)

Apartment Loan Store often comes up and they publish the cap rates.  

No I'm not going to publish a name, etc.  

Agents are NOT allowed to practice law in any way, but in Ohio they are allowed to help with a "standard" preprinted fill-in-the-blanks real estate contract form that is published by a recognized agency like the Ohio bar or the Ohio Realtor's association. 

Are there any 'gurus' out there that can give me some insight on publishing...

Or the lenders should publish their guidelines on their websites.

Litigation is a little easier to do broadly than transactional, in my opinion.One suggestion is to search for legal articles in the specific area that you are seeking because the attorney publishing an article in that area probably does know something about it (but not always).If you have trouble finding the right person for your sub-specialty, please feel free to email me with a description of what you are seeking and I can ask around.

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