If you send "year end gifts" to your tenants, you are not a real estate investor, you are Santa Claus.8.

In this case, what I would do is just give the tenant a Christmas gift and give them free rent for the last two weeks of Dec AS LONG AS she can get utilities on and pay her deposit.

See if Billy Graham will take it off your hands;http://billygraham.org/give/other-ways-to-give/gift-planning/ways-to-give/

Also with FHA you can get a gift from family for the down payment 3.5% without nothing down and FHA is more forgiving on credit issues.After June many people will be using conventional.

In light of those facts, 50 cents on the dollar would be a gift for this note, regardless of what anyone else tells you.

, two purposefully starved but very alive pit bulls left in a basement as a "parting gift" for an eviction, I dealt with buildings where coming with two people was still too few for "safety in numbers," had issues with squatters breaking in...Squatters: We had an 8-plex with eight storage units in the basement.

Mr.FerrenHave you ever wrote up a Property Finder Contract to use with the investors you work with.I really would like to talk to you just so I can get a good grasp at finding properties in general but I would like to know why the financer was so angry with his post and assuming that BIRD DOGGING IS ILLEGAL.I dont see how because you can give a gift or exchange of goods to anyone.As a matter of fact maybe you have an legal interest in the property with the signing of the contract by the investor.I'd like to talk more with you.

its the gift that keeps on giving.

It's the gift that keeps on giving!!

All contracts, options, or other devices not based upon a substantial consideration, or that are otherwise employed to permit an unlicensed person to sell, lease, or let real estate, the beneficial title to which has not, in good faith, passed to such party for a substantial consideration, are hereby declared void and ineffective in all cases, suits, or proceedings had or taken under this chapter; however, this section shall not apply to irrevocable gifts, to unconditional contracts to purchase, or to options based upon a substantial consideration actually paid and not subject to any agreements to return or right of return reserved.And BTW, "most" wholesalers do Not buy the property if they can't find a buyer because they simply don't have the funds to do so.