However, this would be unusual in today’s environment.Q: Finally, would local smaller banks and credit unions be a good place to cherry pick these kinds of notes to purchase, or do you have to do the direct mail, website marketing, drive-around deal like other strategies to find these mortgages?

The 10% was something that I thought was unusual as well originally, but understood the extra time and effort they took into getting quotes.

I have two tenants who do not get their retirement checks until the 3rd of each month and have asked me to write their leases to modify the date rent is due; I have with absolutely no problem receiving the rent from them.If they are receiving social security (and will be using this for rent) it is not unusual that social security can check these checks out on the 15th of the month.However, if they are asking to move in on the 1st but will not pay you until the 15th; I would not agree to that.Gail

.+ 500 doc prep + escrows  (YES THEY ESCROW, WHICH I PERSONALLY HATE) (LO uncertain abt the number of months of escrow that will required at this time.)+ cost of title work (I select the title co).  

This is easily one of the most frustrating and uncertain elements of investing for me.

She says there are some out-of-state investors that are starting to come in and build four Plexes in the area and that is unusual for this area.

That's the value of an agent who goes hard in the paint on due diligence.Now, an example of an agent thinking creatively and seeing a value-add opportunity that everyone else missed: There was a house that had been on the market for a long time, and the reason was obvious: it was only a 2 br 1 ba house, and the floorplan was very, very weird, so nobody wanted it...however, my agent spotted that the listing had unusually large Sq footage, so we went to check it out...10 minutes after walking into the house, my agent says "we can turn this loser into a winner".

This is probably an unusual question, but have any landlords added rentable tenant storage space to their existing apartments?

Hi Derrek, I am looking to fund a loan through Benet Ford but still feel uncertain.

They want an underwriting fee up front and I was wondering if that was unusual?