Seems like a waste of time.   

Experience is the best teacher, but if I can avoid wasting time by asking questions, I'm all for it!

Or am I just wasting my time?"

I am looking for advice from all of you experts out here about how to market myself to first time home buyers, how to get a potential buyer to make and offer and how to weed out the people who appear to just be wasting your time.

So, what other things do you all look for when doing online research to determine if a particular neighborhood is "good" or not before you waste gas/time to see it in person.

Essentially, my plan is to learn, network, tighten up my credit, raise capital, and pull the trigger within the next year (my original plan was within 9 months, but that would mean purchasing in December...I'm afraid it will be more difficult to flip a house in this area during the winter and I want to minimize holding cost as much as practical...thoughts on that are appreciated).That said, I'm a clean slate ready to absorb all the knowledge and wisdom from others in the BP community.

Frustrating waste of time and don't want to go through that again.Anyone in Orange County CA that has a solo 401k - what bank do you work with?

It would be ashame to waste any of these leads.

I am leaning towards not claiming any costs in order to maximize my claimed income to minimize my future DTI.

Don't waste time with a buyer you find on your own.