Watch your state laws though on what is legal.The more you get out there and look at deals, even if it's one a week, the more you will learn.Sounds like you have a good plan!

You can check your state laws on affirmative defenses easily by checking your Revised Code online.

I am a big fan of NOLO Press self help law books.

We are trying to put one in our back yard but our by-laws say, "No sport courts".

I think our poster on the bulletin board at the law school may have brought one of our apartment tenants.

This is a new federal law that you can get your report from each agency once per year at no cost to you.The process should take about an hour or so as you have to keep re-entering the same data for each agency.If you are married do separate reports, not joint.

As far as getting into multiple REO's, the new law here has made it a little harder to deal directly with homeowners in foreclosure so I am looking for an alternative while they are ironing out the kinks.

If you mean aproaching sellers in foreclousre before the auction, this is perhaps best unless you live in a state like Maryland that has laws to protect homeowners in foreclosure.

They then add a federally accepted overage which by law can be up to 15% (they must eliminate this if you tell them you do not want them to include it).

The current flavor of the month (or rather, the last year or so) is law.