Keep your clients a secret from everyone until you have an assignment agreement signed and notarized and preferably recorded at the county recorder.

If it works I'm afraid I'll have treat him like an excellent tailor, and keep him a secret while never speaking his name above a whisper. 

what's the secret, just want to understand.

In my several decades of investing I have found that purchasing with cash flow as the number one goal and the secret to success in real estate.

The secret really is tenant screening and being a good but firm landlord.

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That's the biggest reason why we all jump on "gurus" when they come aboard with their "secrets"to many good, qualified and official investors here to pull one over on us.

I secretly wish that I would have hung on to that one...

The best way to keep evil plans a secret, is to openly tell it.

What's the secret!?