I don't beat them up for a couple of hundred bucks.

You will spend the same amour and know the quality of your list.They can be had for under a few bucks an hour.

I decided to learn those things myself when I bought my primary residence and a guy wanted to charge me $100 bucks for something as simple as installing a ceiling fan.1- Not much time.

Annette,I am a commercial principal broker.I don't think you should feel guilty.I would feel guilty if you were dishonest upfront and drew them in under false pretenses and expectations.150,000 is not that low of a price point.In Atlanta there are trash properties for 10,000 where the commission is 600 bucks to 1,000 and that's if you are the broker owner and do not have to pay franchise fees and broker splits.I only do commercial and do not waste my time with those low pay properties.So you are an investor.Did you and the agent talk about how you were going to finance these properties?

All in all the money in a money market is paying 50 bucks a month and the other houses on street are 1100 and 1200/mth so I figured even though I don't have much experience with rehab and reselling i cant screw up too bad.

These are often worth more than making an extra couple of bucks each sale.Good luck!

A buddy of mine, bought Ron Legrands book for like 17 bucks and went on to buy and sell over 600 houses!

Then YOU go after the roofer for being sloppy and not dragging a magnet broom around the property to pick up stray fasteners.Trying to hide behind some indemnification clause in a lease over a few bucks is just asking for this thing to fester and grow into a full-blown law suit.

Does anyone have any experience using zero-coupon notes, or notes that don't make principal/ interest payments until maturity, to make acquisitions?

I know it's hard to bend from your rules but it could actually save you a few bucks.