It's normally the desire for immediate income that steers most investors towards bad investments because they are hyper focused on cash flow which is often portrayed differently in spreadsheets than in real life, and should be a consideration but not deciding factor.

What you want to steer clear of is the design firms types that will tell you that not only will it be expensive but take a ton of time.

Managed to steer clear of the fraud in Metro Detroit, but did get interviewed by the FBI once.

I’m thinking of a flat referral fee, maybe $1,000 or $2,000 to a buyer agent to reduce the risk of them steering their clients away from our listings.Step 5: hire listing agents and buyer agents. 

I was on a Senate Steering committee way back in 85 on how to deal with all the platted antiquated lots in CA. there are millions lots created before the modern rules and these lots exist today but many are not buildable and are traded back and forth from tax sale buyers to retail buyers who dont realize their 5k lot in CA is non buildable.So there was a big conference in FT.

I have a friend with a skid steer, and if we can't do it it's probably not worth it!

Especially with a newer investor such as myself.This has steered me towards buying locally.

Thanks BP for once again helping me to steer clear of yet another scam.  

Now that I know to steer clear of investing with MI, does anyone have recommendations for Turnkey providers for out of state investors?

I am steering my strategy towards being a dispo wholesaler for acquisition wholesalers.