Unfortunately, brokers and bankers are the face of any bank when it comes consumer perception.

If you form one or more companies and you finance your partners through the companies and your partners buy, rehab, and flip properties, you are not a mortgage business.The law frequently treats consumers differently from business persons.

I do my own maintenance so it's much more time consuming.

That number tells you that quality over quantity works and that it is much more time consuming and expensive to do one deal, lose a customer, and then pick up another new customer again.A qualified database of say 100 buyers with a bunch of money who can buy over and over again I will take any day over 2,000 contacts and 80% are junk and can't hardly do anything.

Sorry, don't remember the author, I taught the class years ago.Actually, what I mentioned could easily be consumed in a few days, you only need an understanding so that you get a big picture and you'll see how things fall into place and the inter-relationships.What you need is a good small library.

However, it is a little more time consuming to manage because you need individual accounts for each LLC.You should hold as many properties in an individual LLC as you are comfortable with losing in a lawsuit.Also, with an LLC, I prefer to do a manager-managed, with me as the manager.

To take on changing the restricted covenants and HOA rules is a time consuming and costly activity and one that you would most likely loose.

The problem with a real estate agent is to adjust to what the consumer wants not what agents want.

It seems like this will hit the small player hard.I presume you are talking about CA SB978.For the small player, trust deed investments have been legislated out of existence in CA, same as private money investments in consumer loans have been legislated out of existence nationwide.

Learning my market is very time consuming, along with education.