The up side for her is I will end up buying 5-10 properties a year through her.My only criticism of her is she wont bend the rules and give me the lockbox codes so I can look inside a property on my own, if I happen to be driving by. 

Hi Grant:as someone also new to commercial real estate, I can't specifically give you any tips on it per se, but from a general investing standpoint, I would say you have to ask yourself why are you buying the building. if its to fix and flip or buy and hold. these are two different goals.IF its strictly for investment purposes and you are buying to hold: I would consider two things.work on paper some calculations to see if 1. does it cash flow ?

No wetlands, it is zoned RLD-60 and is big enough to make two lots conforming to that code. 

If you want to build anything more efficient than a minimum code bundle of sticks, you could be looking at $120 - $130/sq ft.  

And that house in Maryland in the 21146 zip code would have been $ 475,000 done .

Our local rental association in Clark County publishes a great tool called "State of Washington Residential Rental Laws" that puts into one place all of the RCWs (RCW = Revised Code of Washington) regarding residential rental property and includes a helpful summary.

To be exact, $5,000,000 in loan transactions a year.There might be a potential market for a middle man that would allow people that do not $5,000,000 a year to get some of the data.For example, many investors would love to find non performing loans in only one zip code.

That's how I got started (1978).The legal information that you to study is primarily found in CA Civil Code Section 1695 as it relates to Equity Purchase Agreements.Also, study CC 2924(a) et seq. as these are the laws pertaining to non-judicial Foreclosures.I believe you can still download a copy of the Equity Purchase Agreement which includes the statutory 14 point type font language at Ward Hanigan's Foreclosure Forum website.I still think the most successful people who are looking for super-bargains (meaning properties with lots of existing or created equity will do their best work by a combination of mailing, calling and knocking as owners are getting pounded by direct mail pieces.

I am running into that same issue but did find the user guide for the data file on the states website which breaks down the definition of each code found in the columns themselves.

Here is my current criteria1) Zip Codes I want2) Equity 50-100%3) Value $0-$300,0004) Absentee (In State and Out of State)5) Residential SFRI am a bit confused about filtering either for Length of Residence or Last sale date.