ex) you see the investment property and you like it, all the numbers look good it's more of a buy and hold and your source of income is from the rent and appreciation later..the fund collects partners from all over. investors are "collected" until enough $$ is collected to cover the cost of the property. so it's a real esate partnership with no min and with numerous partners, run by a company. so a real estate investment trust in small form for small investors, who have lets say 1,000 lying around in a bank account.Not sure if i'm clear, but would you be willing to be a part of it?

Most "experts" or "gurus" say it is OK to provide something a little more nominal in cash to the seller, say $1,000 for moving expenses or a lease deposit, but pay it as a purchase for some item such as an appliance, or a service, such as a clean out of the property, paid on an invoice separate from the HUD.

The end result was what Richard speaks of which is the 99/1 rule.Though I am not a negative person and have no desire for this to be a "negative" post, the truth remains that 99% of the people will take up your time, suck the life out of you and never do anything with the wealth of knowledge that you freely give away, or, in his case, nominally give away.

The 50% rule assumes a nominal vacancy rate.

After 30 years, in nominal terms (i.e., the price you would sell it for in current dollars) would be $432,194.

Some kind of collective information that is categorized, catalogued and setup in a form of a search engine (The REI search engine..I like the sound of it) that people can come in and of certain nominal fee, can search for a subject and there will be accumulative data set in sort of lessons which derived from the conversation we have on the board.

I just removed a manager at a out of state park, a very complex operation and I was there three days... 3: I run all my mobile homes through another company I have and the income is nominal.

The way I would do it is have a mortgage broker (along with credit repair personnel) work with have them through the entire time they are leasing the property and use a third party note collecting company (for a nominal fee, not much like $75 to start and $10 a month) to show that they have a record of paying and your mortgage broker can use that as seasoning.

A nominal $5k or so in extra carry costs (hard money versus bank money) is well worth the quick close and not losing the deal because some bank bureaucrat drops the ball at the last minute.

Apparently the Danes allow borrowers to access loans via the secondary market directly while adding nominal fees via an originating institution.