New arrivals we are able to access some jurisdictions court records, and also google etc. can provide a lot of interesting info.

$2,000.00 divided by 360 (days in the year) divided by the loan amount will give you the interest factor.Normally you would compute the loan amount X the loan interest factor or rate, times 360 to arrive at the annual interest charged.If you are doing private financing I suggest you seek out a mortgage broker or loan originator to assist both of you in this.

If you have been in the business for more than three years, your tax returns will be averaged so arrive at qualifying income, so one bad year might not kill you.

I think this investor expects you or your wife to be something similar to these bidding services, where title and lien searches are performed, comps are identified, the property is visited, repairs are ballparked, etc to arrive at a bid number; all that is quite a bit of work.

I saw that list the other day, and I thought it was strange to see no DFW representation, but then again DFW was relatively insulated from the effects of the recession from what I understand (I didn't arrive here until 11/12, from Austin).

That's pretty much where I've arrived. 

Once the material arrived, you cut a check for an earlier agreed upon amount.

We seem to agree mostly, just took a long time to arrive at that conclusion lol.

When I arrived 30 minutes later with sheets, towels and a case of good beer, they looked at me like I was the Second Coming of Christ! 

What I am getting is the directions to the points that I want or need to study to arrive at the desired destination.