There is a possibility that you could "possibly" come out with a couple bucks at refi, but you could also essentially get a rental unit with no net cash OOP.

So, I pay no selling agent commission, saving a few bucks...The buyer agent gets a commission, however.

You might even make a few bucks a month on advertsing using a service like google or CJ to help offset the costs.

I decided to save a few bucks and not buy some tarps, after all wood is made from trees and they are outside all the time.

I can't see spending 80 bucks for someone to come out and tell me what I already know.

Could I possibly charge a realtor for these leads, say 20 bucks a property and if he closes to an investor I get the finders fee minus the 20 bucks?

When the seller see's he could have gotten $13K (and he will unless you paid outside of close) then I would imagine he would be upset - then the seller see's he could have gotten it for $10K and now he is upset - your making more then the realtor so he/she is upset.A lot of people are not mature enough to remember they are happy with the deal - so what they do is count other peoples money - in this case yours.

The cost of the writ is $130 bucks.

For just a few bucks, you can easily find a kid to stick labels and stamps on your cards and deliver them to you for posting

I think they are still trying to recover from all the write downs/offs of real estate loans and are scared to death of the upcoming maturing loans as well as making more bad real estate loans.