The city mayor is super progressive and has done awesome things for the music and arts in the city.

Our lifestyle is cultured and urbane; we support the arts and public radio/TV.

He had just retired from United after a long career working his way up from engineer to co pilot to capitan on ( at the time state of the art 747 400 )  and we were talking about the strikes that would happen in the airlines.. so the pilots who are totally pro union ( most of them anyway)  ALPA is super strong .. 

I spend most of my time in the Pearl and Alberta arts districts.

What to extract from a credit report is part art and part science; if you just get a FICO (or other branded model of) credit score, you don't get to see the details that matter.

This stuff is becoming a lost art. 

with all these so called gurus filling my e-mail box with special courses on private lending, short sales, foreclosures, rehabbing internet leads and everything else real estate related under the sun.I even know of some guy who is a martial arts expert out east who is pitching real estate information products.Being in this business for 9 years there is not much that has changed in terms of RE strategies.

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?

Do you know  of any good threads or  articles  that breaks  down the  art of  Subject To  funding of  deals?

I am currently reading, The Art of Raising Capital by Darren Weeks.