Estimating repairs is a skill that takes some time and practice.

If that is the case, you keep her money as liquidated damages and start your marketing engine back up in earnest.As a matter of practice, I NEVER stop marketing until a lease is signed.

What are the best practices that you've found to manage multiple properties and servicers when lenders sell their loans?

@Cory Lucas keep your agent but start prospecting for deals on your own as well (direct mail, marketing, driving for dollars, networking, building a website and using SEO, Facebook ads, whatever you find works).

The work you do is entirely related to acceptable real estate practices and2 you can document over 750 hours in those practices and those hours exceed the number of hours you work in your profession (outside of RE)This was set up to prevent people from using REI as tax havens.  

Most of them want me to fill out a form to get more info, but I know if I fill out forms with a dozen of these, I'll get buried in spam for months -- a lesson I learned long ago after searching for mortgage rates.So far, the only site I've seen that provides any concrete, practical information is Equity Trust.

As a result, only a few types of residential owner financing remain practicable.

In my case, I stood firm, the seller attorney finally gave in, practically begged if his client could get half his money back after talking tough and nasty over three calls, and I hung up on him.

.#5 Practice, Practice, PracticeWalkthrough potential rehab properties (or find properties virtually online) and practice creating detailed scopes of work, quantifying repairs and estimating rehab costs for the projects.#6 Get Your First Rehab ProjectYou can practice all you want, but ultimately you will learn the most about estimating rehab costs by actually rehabbing a house.

Does anyone have best practices for managing a direct mail/online campaign while working full time?