Build relationships with top REO agents and have tjem start contacting you when they get new listings (before they hit teh MLS)3.

Also I try to build processes around tasks to make things routine and efficient.

Bill Gulley hit it on the head with this.Most of you here know that I prefer not to talk much about my holdings.

When inflation hits people run to hard assets and farmland gets a double boost from inflation investors in the land and commodity price increases.

Those funds can be spent away or they can then be used to buy decent notes at a discount, which is where the real bucks are, I hit 24, 30 and 40+ (actually a few times in the hundreds after refinancing them) returns easily on discounted notes.

The bank is taking a bigger hit so that an investor can skim some money off of the deal.

Yes your correct about getting hit with those capital gains taxes.

This is no real trick to it or any hit to the rate for it.

At some point our government at all levels is going to have to cut back, and I don't want to be hit too hard when it happens.

Chris hits it on the head, treat them as your partner with respect and not as someone who is out to rip you off every chance they get, this will make for a better relationship and jobs go much more smoothly that way.