Depending on the flavor of motivation you're looking for, try:1.

Again, investing with your money is fine, buying a note, if you're in a partnership that can change the flavor and become a brokerage situation.Thing about buying illegally is that you could put yourself in a situation where you could not enforce the terms of the loan if the debt was acquired in violation of law.I suggest you talk to an attorney, you'll want to know that the debt was initially made in compliance.

I did this last year actually on a second.Another caution here, speaking of just buyer notes, as Dion like to mention "class" there is a difference between loans funded with cash and obligations as paying equities and purchasing equity notes can complicate the flavor as part may become viewed as a cash obligation to a point (when purchased at a discount) and the equity amounts of the unpaid balance.

Obviously you must be more subtle with a pre-teen or teen, but it is still possible.

Look for expired listings, properties with a history of being on the market, high DOM count.Does an ice cream store only sell the flavors?

There may be something subtle about the two neighborhoods that creates a real difference.

@Judson Laipply - Yes, perhaps I was too subtle, but that was the very irony I was pointing out...

OTH, it is not secured by title necessarily but certainly takes the flavor of an installment sale like a land contract.Regardless, IMO, these Acts will be the new base line from which to judge predatory practices regardless of whether or not a seller is required to comply.

Leslie, there is a subtle but very important difference between prepaid rent for specific months (e.g., I am pre-paying rent for the months of January to June 2015) and an undefined "last month".You could claim it's the last month of the lease, but do you intend to let your tenants not pay you the 12th month (assuming a 1 year lease), or will you expect them to pay the 12th month, and then if it goes month-to-month, the "last month" will just keep rolling?

Well with us being in a rising real estate climate there are subtle ways to maximize value and get more for a property than you usually would that most professional rehabbers know, which would be something else you can question them about.