@Samantha Griffin Your 2nd question regarding long-term financing is a very good one and one you should go into with eyes wide open.

These loans will have a WIDE swath of underwriting criteria and program guidelines.

Took the exam 1 month later and passed.There will be brokerages hiring but most retail companies are pulling back for MLOs, the commercial side is wide open.Hope this helps

Good time to be in the market...I found this site by way of some great colleagues I work with who have a wide variety of experience in doing this and have started asking for their suggestions and advice but also figured I'd ask here, never hurts to have too much info.Onto the specifics!

The benefit and curse of private financing is you and the lender can negotiate pretty widely on what are acceptable lending terms (within legal limits of course).I have a friend who has purchased on several seller financed loans, he includes in all of them that he has the right of first refusal on a bonafide not sale offer.

Industry wide close to 9 out of 10 agents will leave the industry every single year.

Hi Jason, I sell double wides (houses) on land contract, contract for deed, many names for the same thing;  title stays in sellers name till the terms of the contract are met. 

Although the loan has matured, unless you didn't complete the renovation, or if there is some other missing piece of information, most lenders are wide open when it comes to extension, FYI there is likely a fee for such extension. 

Many more Florida counties were flooded by the inner and outer rain bands of this 500-mile-wide storm.

I consider myself an educator first, be a reasonable voice in the mass hysteria and spread what I’ve learned as far and wide as I can, for free.