Now on the final coat he is playing the same game of not answering my calls or texts.

Must be something about the IT field -- I work with accounting software for a living.

If you mean for getting a loan, then anything is fair game.

I am impressed that and you already noticed opportunities in tear down and rebuilding this early in the bowl game.

Congrats on jumping into the game!

No real rule of thumb to say a discount will be X%, depends on many factors.I agree with Wayne that you'd be better off with private money, problem is they are usually short term, but there are some little old ladies that would love to get 8/9% for 10 years for the grandkids, but that has other issues too.Now, if you're buying a 100K property for 70K you might do a 90K loan and you may get the 70K, the trick is not to go over the market value of the property and show that you have skin in the game or compensate for the skin like a pledge of other assets.

I am just getting back into the business after a hard reset in 2007. Looking to invest locally as I have learned working with properties even 30 miles away can be a pain. I intend to focus on preforeclosures and I w...

I really am not desiring to manage my properties myself, it's not in my long term game plan.The town is small and with city codes I don't know that they would accept a box as an address as well, and I tend to try to play by the rules and codes rather than break or bend them, but that is just me. 

Your client needs some serious skin in the game if your credit is on the line.

I work for an insurance quoting software company and we work with agents all of the time writing these policies across the country.