Supplier has exclusive insider relationship with a major loan service, bids on 6k REOs/mo., gets 600 or 10% at 30-70% below true wholesale pricing.

There are also, of course, numerous other ways to find properties that are not being actively advertised on the MLS, of which there are tons of posts on BP that might be of use.Best of luck!

Of course this is driven by Demand (fueled by large Job Growth and Pop Growth), but since Real Estate is an inefficient market with so many suppliers of inventory, it's predictable that with any jolt in Demand, there will likely be Over-Supply. 

I have called the police upon numerous occasions and they can do nothing because no one monitors growth limits and police have to have a warrant to come on to property.  

Obviously, the numerator is the Gross Scheduled Income, but what do you folks use in the denominator (purchase price, purchase price + rehab costs, ARV, etc)? 

Numerous times, we have started dialogue with real estate agents, and after a few emails back and forth, they seem to disappear!

Financing is not that complicated but there are numerous options as long as you figure in all of your costs you will be good to go.

The numerous resources are impressive. 

I have heard several people offer up ideas like 2 separate checks for rent and rent credit, but that kind of flies in the face of the buyer paying on time.I have sold numerous houses on lease-option.

Its probably at least $80 a month less in a Midwest area if not more and with a great team those numbers can be lower even in more costly states.Of course many people do not focus on these properties for numerous reasons such as:1) While the numbers can work its very very tough esp. if you are not local and its just so much easier to do other properties.