If anyone wants to chat, in real time, with other members you can click the link to the left that says Real Estate Chat under popular links.Or, click: http://www.biggerpockets.com/chat/

It has become a pretty popular service.

Taking an existing contract to use can be like putting a square peg in a round hole and if you don't "underwrite" the borrower and provide resonable safeguards you could have problems down the road.Lastly, you need to address the issues arising from your investigation of the buyer so that you actually use the right kind of contract for the circumstances.

Im sure this is a very popular question but Im curious what everyone here does?

If you're predicting a rise are you shying away from commercial investments and buying only 1-4?

Originally posted by Tom Cullen: IOW, can you win a popularity contest.There is that.

Tom -Once again, you've reminded me how poor the educational system is in this country and reaffirmed how uneducated talk-show hosts are dumbing down this country one listener at a time...For someone who seems so good at cutting and pasting information from the web and presenting it as your own, I'd think you would have at least done a little bit of research on this subject...To a typical high-school dropout, it may seem intuitive that an increase in global temperatures would mean that big snowstorms are less likely, but to anyone who had done even a modicum of research would know that a rise in sea temperatures would likely trigger more extreme weather, including the freak storms like we saw last winter and this winter.

I don't like angies list because their best people on there get so popular that they become negligent.

And the market has already priced in the expectation of a rise.

I have read opinions from other popular real estate authors that go so far as to call serial selling in violation racketeering...crazy stuff!