Per the homepath website, the following lenders will do Mortgage Renovation loans in PA:Colonial National MortgageFirst Place BankFirst Merit MortgageFlagstar BankPrimeLendinghttp://www.homepath.com/financing/renovationlenders.htmlSeveral of these are national banks and do business in multiple states.

Being exposed to all kinds of real estate matters has merits that only more experience can match.

Some will warn you that you don't want "analysis paralysis" and you need to "just do it" and "get started"-- and while there's some merit to that, the vast majority of people who have "analysis paralysis" really just have plain old paralysis-- they aren't doing ANYTHING.Through research and analysis, your objective should be to discover opportunities that others aren't necessarily seeing.

A Realtor relocation aspect might have some merit, but a Realtor in LA really won't be involved in a deal in Little Rock.So all the noise about getting leads might be great for some, but unless they are traded to people in the immediate area of the lead, I can't see much use for them.

Each deal would have to be chosen on its own merits once the initial contact has been made.

Originally posted by Ryan Schroder:I would agree that they have a lot of advantages, but they also don't come with the economies of scale that an apartment offers.Ryan, I think the economies of scale argument for apartments has some merit, but feel that multiple SFR's can benefit from the same scale.

This transaction must stand on its own merit and be seperate from the B-C transaction.

I have always judged people on their own merit, not their color.By population, Springfield, Mo. is the second whitest community in the country.

Consequently, you need to make sure you have an exhaustive due diligence checklist and evaluate the deal based on its own merits given your criteria and ignore what others are doing.Having said that the price per door of comparables in the area is a healthy sanity check to see whether or not your bid price is in line with the market.

This has some merit.