Grace Ng Bethesda (especially near the NIH and Walter Reed campuses) also presents excellent opportunities for a tear down and rebuild.

Dev Horn, that's excellent advice and I will be picking up a copy of J Scott's book soon!

Mortgage Brokers also have access to hard money lenders and may be able to tap into those resources as well and may be able to help you identify a few hard money lenders that you can contact.5.REIA – Your local real estate investment association (REIA) is an excellent place to grow your real estate investing business.

The reasons I prefer individuals are:- I usually have their cell phone number, so much easier to get a hold of then trying to call an office line and leaving a voicemail- Simple statements, usually in Word or Excel and just simply say the income and expenses and total deposited- Way less players in the game, meaning the one guy handles a whole situation.

I expect to hear from Jon H soon :) Since the main benefit of the Roth is to allow gains to accumulate tax-free it seems counter-productive to do something that makes the gains taxable.

If you've found investments that product 10% cash on cash returns, and you want $100,000 a year, you need to invest $1 million.

Offering a lease option is an excellent way to deal if you wanted to do that.

An excellent idea Jon of writing articles to write the chapters of a book.And to your point of enduring fundamentals, the book "Think and Grow Rich" remains an interesting read that exposes and embraces fundamentals that are applicable to all types of businesses.

I've never had anyone back out on the property but this is an excellent way to make sure that my time isn't wasted if they do.

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