I’ve worn a number of hats—commercial mortgage originations, syndication, securitization, etc and was once a CFO for an affordable housing developer using low income housing tax credits.I’ve seen the tail end of the early ‘90’s downturn and was knee deep in the most recent one.

Delve deep into how I feel about it and orient my future accordingly.For those of you that knew you wanted to be an investor; before purchasing that first property what steps did you take to get there?

Pretty much predatory dealing to begin with.Hope it's cleaned up now. 

You must build rapport as you go throughout the entire meeting with the seller.I really want you to spend 5 to 15 minutes upfront building rapport before you move on to step two, but that doesn’t mean you’re done building rapport.Throughout the negotiation you need to gauge your level of connection with the seller, and look for opportunities to deep in this connection.

For a wholesaler to have a real shot at reselling a listed property, they would have to acquire it at a deep enough discount to pay at least four people: 1) seller 2) agent 3) wholesaler 4) investorIt better be a big pie or there will be skinny slices. 

This is because the unknown water looks so deep and murky; however, the biggest advice I can give you is take a look in the area you live, or an area that is a little more affordable outside of where you live! 

Once you have identified the handful of heavy hitters, I would suggest volunteering in their office as much as you can.Even it it's just cleaning or answering phones - you will pick up some good tid-bits through osmosis.  

My credit has been fixed from my mess back then and is clean with 1 trade line as I rebuild my own personal credit too.

Does anyone have a company they use and can recommend for a similar situation.2 units just need cleaning and painting, the 3rd unit needs drywall and the kitchen replaced.Thank you for any advice.

Then I start pointing out the dripping this and the disgusting that, the funky smell over there and whatever that is in the corner over there and he eventually comes around to my way of thinking.He was convinced that we could just clean the bathtub and tile.