Retired LEO now living in TN.I've flipped a few houses through the years and have a couple of new opportunities on the burner. 

I got one line of credit from Community bank in Jackson for 1 million dollars to use for my HML's and I got it because they could book at as CRA  because I was lending on Jackson properties it worked great for them they could book a big fat CRA loan and lend to a guy like Me..

After all, I enjoy getting checks monthly - but it would nice to cash in a fat check once in while too.Question 2 - Networking is key to finding good deals - MLS can have some good deals periodically - but the best deals are going to come from a distressed situation that you find out about through word of mouth - and that means staying in front of your network and growing it so that you are exposed to new situations and opportunities.

The entire Kenmore oven, burner, and clock suddenly stopped working while the tenants were cooking.

You can have an answering machine that sends cash buyers to message a) then credit buyers to message b) and then maybe credit with fat down pmt buyers to message c) You pay a little bit for patlive to set up a secretary that filters your calls and pretty soon you have a prospecting machine to stop all this nonsense that you might go through on a Saturday when you would rather be at the park with your boy. patlive is just an example you could use any type of virtual live secretarial service to accomplish what im talking about.

And he is fat.

I just left about a week ago on an unexpected trip overseas, and so this is all on the back burner for at least the next month. 

Because if you have gotten an investor mortgage today means you have impeccable credit.. you want to keep it that way.. so you want to have room to exit and keep your credit intact without having to write a big fat check. 

Someone working for free has no incentive not to perpetually leave your property on the back burner.

We bought a 2 family in NH with an oil burner that needs to be replaced.