You need to be aware of who the players are and what their strategies are. 

For example, short term rentals (under 30 days) are illegal in Las Vegas thanks to casino/resort lobbying.

It's nice to get advice from other players, and I always appreciate a different perspective.  

This is a last resort hahaYou can try your county website.

Now, this won't stop them from trying to get more, but if you do your research and know the prices you can at least attempt to get them to price match, or last resort supply your own.Labor is actually a lot easier to hide costs in, more so for the inexperienced person.

For e.g. with smaller/regional players, if they've filled up their "book", they have no incentive to give better terms.

To Dave's point of seller financing coming back-- and, as he also alluded to 'networking'- as in taking a banker to lunch---a serious long-term player in the note space should never overlook attorneys, accountants and financial planners as viable referral sources for this type of product.

the deals mainly came in from wholesalers and the big players there are all licensed and own real estate companies.no question little mom and pop doing a few year will come under the radar.. but they have zero protection if they get turned in or have an issue.if your setting up and are a player at 75 transactions a year your not going to have the Hey I did not know I am a newbie defense  LOL.. if you plan on doing volume there you might want to consider bringing a licensee in to your team.I understand in OHIO you need to be licensed as well.I left FLA for Cleveland area and Dayton and Cinnci.. now we close everything we aim and not even double close so not an issue for me.. but last time I was in town the attorney for the title company we use took me to lunch and we discussed how OHIO interprets these things and its clear if its a scheme to circumvent license laws its not legal.. but as we were noshing on our mid day meal.. we both said well that maybe the law but with all the guru's teaching this stuff and really a ton of what is propagated on this site.. its still rampant and those that wish to do it will just continue until they are stopped.if we did not need licenses to sell real estate we did not own..

Find the big players in Seattle on BP.Add the keywords "Seattle" and/or "Washington" to the BP keyword alerts.

Credit counselling and debt consolidation should be considered ahead of bankruptcy if she has not already done so.Bankruptcy should only be considered as a final resort not as a escape plan.