Craig, there's no doubt that the big real estate and private equity shops have the upper hand when it comes to scooping up REOs in bulk for two reasons.1.

That would mean you would need to have a corporation too.If they were to pay you w-2 income, both you and they would get hit with a bunch of additional withholding taxes.Or maybe they could just become your private money lenders.

you know what they say, "those that can...DO and those that can't...TEACH"'70% of my professors had private industry experience and most of them consulted on the side.

But a normal contract form a private seller is assignable.

They won't allow you to option their homes thus preserving some of your working capital like you could do with a private seller.

Part of my job is to create and manage programs that encourage private investment and revitalization.

Keep it simple as Will mentioned.Do some searching here about hard money lenders, private lenders and financing.

At least enough cash that you can get a hard money loan or access to a private investor.- You're asking the successful investor to teach you how to compete against them.

I’ve known the note investor for over 20 years and they have a 150 million private placement fund to buy notes and are credible, proven and reliable players in the note buying industry.Annette, you won’t believe this but the idiots at SBA turned down the loan request so the transaction came to me from a realtor who sat in on my guest speaker 45 minute seller finance presentation last April.Perfect example how five entrepreneurs and one individual can do business better than the entire United States Federal Government.

I'm not exactly an expert in this arena, but to kick-off the responses do you have access to any private money?