But I wouldn't stress over the amount of effort you put into it.Automating your social media activity as much as possible is also useful.

While you definitely want to be professional with whatever you present, don't stress about making it too fancy. 

This forum thread can be a vehicle to help relieve stress, so please don't hold back!

There are few multifamily properties in Santa Fe, but tons in Albq.

the reason that lenders generaly do not go that low.. is you simply cannot make enough money on the file to make it worth the time or risk.when I had my HML company it was my specialty but I had flat fee of 3 to 5k per file.. so its hard to advertise your charging 10 to 15 points.. but when you quantify that to dollars its just a few grand on these small deals.. and if your deal craters.. the HML put out 30k to make say 2 or 3 points that's not even 1k.. and the cost of foreclosure would be far above that.. and the HML would lose their butt on those deals.. 

For folks suggesting purchasing out-of-state - how much added stress does this add to the process?  

Less stress, less time and less money in the long run.

This has been stressing me out.  

Getting attorneys involved and filing lawsuits is an expensive, stressful, time consuming process that sounds great in theory, but in reality is usually just miserable. 

Hi There,For those of you who currently own real estate or are looking to get started with your real estate ventures, I can not stress enough the importance of market research.My experience in property management has lead me to be acquired by a large nonprofit company to complete a market study for their company.