The act of Buying the property comes when the Option is exercised, which is when the Purchase Agreement is signed.

This will give you a ball park figure for your area, and you will start to get some knowledge and remember costs off the top of your head.As with anything else...

We are all told to review a lot of deals and make a lot of offers that usually look low ball to make the deal work.

-----The lender can exercise the "due on sale" clause if the name(s) of the buyer are not the same name(s) as the members identified as the owners of the LLC.

Now if for some reason they wont write an offer as instructed as long as your not low balling with no hope of landing one and have to make 50 offers to get one.. then change of agent could be warranted.Keep in mind many buyers have Critera that they want to stick to which simply is not realistic and if they want those numbers .. they need to go the direct route IE their own direct marketing and close their own deals.

Somehow I completely dropped the ball with that and stoped attending. 

So it definitely varies from company to company, but that's kind of a ball-park structure. 

Not saying you can do it while sitting on the couch, but one way is to buy stuff like this (listed on the MLS in this case):https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/3905-National-Ave-92113/home/147880176If you'd like to go through the exercise of penciling this out and posting, I'll share my POV on why a property like this makes sense.

I'm leaning towards a Sacramento conventional purchase, though the market could go down in the next year --if only there was a crystal ball. 

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