If you use something like Quickbooks it can track loan as it gets paid off so you can easily see how much is owed at any time.

This takes time.

hello, I am under contract for an apartment building, and I will be using seller financing, and this is my first time doing that.can anyone offer any advice on things to look out for or special provisions to put in the contract or to avoid in a seller finance deal?

In the beginning you will spend more time learning how it works, but at the end if you are accumulating rentals, I wouldnt expect to spend more than 5 hrs a month.

Pete) and have narrowed it down to finding a single family home with a pool in the unincorporated Bay Pines area or Indian Rocks Beach (note, it took a long time for me to get over my beach view condo dream in a popular area but HOA fees and restrictions helped!).

Unless you are near a ski hill, there are very few reasons to be there at that time. 

I'm looking to use my VA Loan for the first time to purchase my first property.

We focus in 12 markets in Florida, including SW FLWe are a long time property provider for some of the bigger podcasters: Real Estate Guys Radio, Marco Santorelli (Norada), Kathy Fetke (RWN) Jason Hartman ( Empowerd Investor) GRE (Keith Weinhold), Whitecoat Investor Group, Jake & Gino and more We also work with American Homes for Rent, Invitation Homes, Crescent, Haven Realty (JP Morgan) to name a few on the institutional buying side. 

I was in the field all of the time and I was responsible for estimating.  

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