Whether that's reading a book, taking a course, working with a real estate mentor, or simply tagging along with an investor you know that you know and respect.Learn all you can and drop as much time as you can into learning the ropes.You don't want to financially hang yourself.Good luck!

Our phones have simply stopped ringing (luckily we are booked out fairly well through the end of the year, but what happens in January?).

I'm looking for a good book about starting and funding a REIT.

Chan's books, because he runs a Lease Option - Sub2 BUSINESS in AL and writes well.

Mark to market forces these companies to adjust the value on their books to $100M, not $200M that they've been using.Look at the stories here about short sales, especially on seconds

Their first thought is to seek out a RE investing forum for 'expert advice'.Now would be a great time to come out with a book on what to do with properties with no equity in a lousy market.

Get out the phone book and start calling the banks yourself.

How many books and seminars would i have to go through to be "ready"?

The non-ROTH account accumulates as deferred taxes.I am so sick of hearing that CEOs lied about the risk, lied about the debt, lied about the profit, cooked the books, etc.

Do a search on him, he also wrote a book I really enjoyed.