They get paid by flipping the contracts for nominal assignment fees while spending very little time on the deals.

Sounds genius to me, although I think I'd keep it to a small portion of the country, or you'd spend all of your time flying to see properties.

For those who spend the time to provide all this 'free' information.Landlord & Tenant Issues is by far the best forum!

So if you're a busy professional or family that wants to spend life on things other than doing maintenance to a yard, then you should really consider living in apartments.

Although I had all good houses in good neighborhoods I didn't want to spend any part of my retirement driving back and painting, roofing etc so I sold out.

The biggest problem is spending too much time thinking about starting rather than starting.Use Reed's site to highlight areas where you need to question what you are reading.

There are a million better ways to spend your money.

-Capital of Alberta-One of the fastest growing cities in economic/industrial development-Just north of Edmonton, are the oilsands (2nd largest oil region in the WORLD) -From now till 2020, there will be billions of dollars invested into oil upgraders.

So I designed my own home idea using MS Paint, priced the material and estimated labor and find this is a good I dea if I can manage building a plumb and level wall.Recently the idea was to spend most of my money on land in Colorado and place a RV/trailer along with a few solar panels to charge the batteries, but this wouldn't really do anything unless I was willing to place a well and septic system.You can say I'm in a situation here, and I have no idea of how to handle it.

After all, they don't want to spend time finding you an investment and have you turn around and buy it from someone else :(A Real Estate Professional in the area you are considering can assist you with the following:Find properties in your price range - They can help you find REO's, Foreclosures as well as listed properties.Investment Strategy Information - When a real estate agent knows your investment strategy, they can offer alternatives and may even direct you to an investment that you haven't considered.Financing - Real Estate agents can assist you with obtaining financing.