I should mention, when I started back in the 90s, I did not have internet, I had a cell phone that cost a fortune to use and a roll paper fax machine, and I still did over 100 deals per year!

You may also need a home inspector that can come in and validate your repairs...on paper...and add a value to those repairs.

I do not know the Nor CAL market, but am pretty good at evaluating exit values on paper (of course, driving comps is the only way to verify)Will

After a minute of processing the papers she looked up and said, "Who did you speak to??"...

Now, you can not always judge a book by its cover, however, you only get one chance to make a first impression so make it a good one.For full disclosure, I owned and operated a full service printing company for well over 10 years so I am a tad bias to quality of printing and I notice little things like ink coverage, if the card was cut out properly so all the text is perfectly centered, quality of paper selection, etc.

Most appraisers will lean heavily toward the income approach for a 20-unit apartment building and, as mentioned above, the lender will definitely apply the LTV to the lesser of the appraisal or the purchase price.FYI, portfolio lenders (those that hold their paper in house) may go higher than 75% on an apartment property.

I have some nice paper plans for this

My question is do you know if I need to prove that the bank/lienholder was notified of the sale or was the listing in the paper and to the former owner enough?

I am familiar with the transaction, the paper work (lots of paper work), etc, I've done them before (lord knows we have enough pre-foreclosures in Texas).

The problem on half page ads is that you will have competition for viewer ship because the paper will put at least one other ad on the same page and you can't buy placement.