Carlton sheets course and the dean grasiosi course I've also taken The realtor scores from COTC I've held back from investing for fear of losing what I got and hurting my family for years but my kids are all adults now my credit is pretty good and I have a little bit of money in the bank and I'm not getting any younger I'll be 44 next month and I've decided that I'm going to buy my first investment property by the time I'm 45 went to a another investing course seminar this weekend three day long and enjoyed it quite thoroughly learned a lot of stuff refreshed old knowledge and I see a lot of potential opportunity with this company they have many names prosper live ,Yancey co ,pathways ,response I'm not sure what the parent company it's called but depending on what part of the country you may of heard about them in kind of depends on which one of these names you would heard of they seem to be affiliated with HGTV in someway and they're offering an upgrade package for $25,000 I have till Tuesday to make my final decision on it in order to receive all the benefits of the package I can still buy it after that but I lose out on the few things anybody knows anything about any of this and has any advice I would welcome it thanks for reading and thanks in advance for any replies

If you don't like the price then either renegotiate it or move on to another provider.I find it the height of hypocrisy that an investor from San Francisco with some of the most out of whack market rents in the country is complaining about paying too much to a PM.

This is a great forum to network and learn from this industry from around the country.

I am planning to relocate to my home country for good and need your advice.

Thomas, wrong country. 

I've posted a few articles below which outline the new and most restrictive ("progressive") rental laws in the country, which limit the size of security deposits, non-refundable deposits, and requires giving tenants and option for a payment plan to pay move-in fees.

@Kenneth Reiners - Love your enthusiasm and thanks for your service to our country.

Water is tough because it is typically tied to the property owner...at least it seems to be in most parts of the country.

'I look forward to meeting the rest of my local BP members as well as those around the country.  

I've heard writing multiple offers sight unseen, providing lots of comps and doing lots of ground work to get a deal but I'm wondering if there's anything else other investors are really hungry for that they don't find or that are rare and I like to know what my peers around the country are doing for investors.