Some of that has been changes approved by myself but a lot of it is stuff he didn’t estimate properly when we signed our contract.

You'll want to drive all the streets of a neighborhood looking  for homes that have signs of vacancy (tall grass in the summer, or non-plowed driveways in winter), or are just in poor condition.Then look up the owner information via public records and try to make contact one way or another.

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He sold the business to someone else and I've heard they use actors as their speakers and it's a hard up-sell to attend one of their bigger, more expensive seminars where there is a hard up-sell to sign up for private coaching.All the courses I've looked into are "gurus" trying to up-sell.

Since I have ordered some professional folders, signes, pens and coffee mugs with my logo from vistaprint people have stopped asking me if I own the property.You don't go to the house of your banker and leave a note on the porch that you really should get that loan.

. - For closing, first you will sign a loan agreement to determine what the seller will record, how much they will expect, exactly what you are paying for, and who will service the loan.

He also said there are no signs it is recent and he estimates it was finished settling soon after construction. 

The other thing is that I believe we're in a downturn and will be for years, so the only passive income stream I see offering low risk and steady return is some select corporate bonds purchased at peak interest rates.

This may work if you have  another housing crunch and people who bought and were clueless as to what they were signing.