Just curious, I know there is a contract and I've seen it recommended that when acting as a birddog to have both parties sign a contract, non-disclosure, and/or non-compete.

Even then, the cities are starting to crack down on the total number of non-related persons that can occupy a property.

Yes, I was referring to non-subsidized housing.

From what I read on hud's website I'm thinking that you do not have to live in the property to qualify for 203(k) financing for it? Is this correct? I saw in some earlier post here that some people were saying it wa...

So, now I focus on getting buyers to work with me and once they are qualified and ready to purchase, THEN I match a property up to what their criteria is.Not a lot of Realtors have a "Plug" into Private, NON-MLS, distressed, Wholesale deals like I do, so it works in my favor as far as competition goes in my area.

“Smarts, awareness and non-emotional” (not compassion-less toward people though) are the key words in our current economy… and just maybe in our future one too!

These passive loss rules were put in place specifically to avoid people having big non-cash passive losses that they offset against their ordinary income.

Others who claim they are hard more are technically more like non-conforming lenders who do care about credit.3.

I always laugh at the term "slumlord", (BTW, I am slumlord*** -my real first name---on another non REI website) because it was once jokingly applied to me, by a good friend.

Washington Mutual will do 90% non-owner occupied HELOCs and I believe that Wells Fargo will as well. 8)