This is where so many investors give up...hire a skip tracer (findtheseller.com) and send them a certified letter.

What they don't get is that all that other stuff does facilitate their making more money, and knowing that stuff makes doing deals much easier and safer.The whole primes of wholesaling is pretty lame, just the nature of an invented specialization based on a generally limited inventory to a very limited market.Can you imagine Baskin-Robins having only three flavors of ice cream?

However; there are still places where you can get in to the market.Though we have high prices, we have what nobody else in the country has, we have low unemployment (Orange County is only 5%), a very broad based economy, high wage earners (meaning people can afford mortgages and higher rents) , world class universities and medical centers, amusement parks, recreation of all types, cultural offerings, and unsurpassed natural resources, plus, perfect year round weather.

Student teaching, while necessary and prepatory in nature, is nothing like being the ACTUAL lead teacher.

Miami's always been an area I've been told to stay away from just because it can get so crazy investment-wise, so naturally that makes me want to break into that market even more!

Though I'm shy by nature (especially in new groups), I thought I'd reach out and introduce myself.

However, if I decide to buy it, I plan to convert it to natural gas since there is already a gas line into the property (i.e. there's a gas stove in each unit) and natural gas is cheaper for the tenant.

Like oil, timber, some land, minerals, and other natural resources.

so he has me send it to his mother's email account) the letter listing the options, I have sent the same email to his phone, I have sent the same letter to him via two certified mail with return receipt letters one to his home address and one to his mother's home address where he says he is is house sitting for her.

Re: the retirement income, currently my income has been good, though I am a frugal person by nature and really don't spend much.