You could spend your day correcting my posts.

., she's not a high-maintenance, heavy-spending, new-shoes-every-week kind of gal).

A real estate professional spends at least 750 hours per year doing RE investing AND spends more hours doing RE investing than anything else.

To give you an example I spend about 2 hours on average a day monitoring my prospects, doing follow ups, managing my files, not to mention throughout the day I am receiving calls from responses to my marketing.

They did not think it was an issue.I would tend to agree also that with all the problem cases out there right now, the last thing they would be spending time on would be calling in well performing loans, especially at LTV of 80% or less.

I tried to do the same once to look at the details, but quickly gave up after spending 2 hours getting through step 1.

I'm going to spend 10-15 minutes looking at the property.

My county lists out auctions for months going forward on the web, but I'm kind of looking for something that's a little more user friendly than a raw action list.I have about a billion more questions, but I just previewed this and it's already too long.

However, I have read some 'experts' that say unless you practice with your semi on a regular basis you are better off with the simplicity of a wheel gun.AdrianG: after you spend some time reading the many useful posts all over this site, you will see that some of us rent to low-income tenants where we are actively involved in cash rent collections, delivering eviction notices, chasing drug dealers and other undesirables off property, doing repairs at odd hours, etc.

I'm not saying that you can't ever find short sale deals, but unless you've got experience, connections or are able to buy in bulk you are going to spend a lot of time chasing pennies.If you are trying to buy a property for $72K when it is really worth $78K, I'm pretty confident you can do better anyway.