In the few deals where we've done this, the investors have been local, and they've wanted to visit the project, get updates, etc.

I would think this is pretty straight forward:1) Lease says "no smoking" on property;2) Neighbour complains of smoke - visit offending tenant, show them the clause in the lease and explain if it continues, they are moving.3) When next offence occurs, serve notice.

Never let the fear of rejection stop you from making that phone call or visiting the seller.If you are afraid that you may screw up or forget what you had to say use a phone script.

About 30 percent of my friends are in school for something they arent even interested in , just doing it for the partying and to make there parents proud.About 20 percent of my friends are in school for teaching, business, professional courses.About 50 percent of my friends are working 9-5 at tire shops, resturants, retail stores making minimum wage asking me what I'm doing this year and I say "traveling to europe, going to mexico, going to visit my home town, etc" and I ask them and they say," just working and taking care of the kids, we have no money"

They close much fater than the other deals as well always a bonus, and also investos dont want to put in the time at the courthouse to get the leads, put them in excel , do the mail merge, set up the 800 numbers , take the calls, go visit the property and build the relationship.

My advise would be to visit the CCIM site and take their introductory course on commercial real estate investing.

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For example, It takes me an hour to drive to the south end of my County, visit with a sub-contractor for an hour, another hour to drive back to the office.

We went in for a visit on a day the market happened to be tanking and the place was packed!

I'll post the completed plans when I figure out how...RichRich Weese - post it to the fileplace, link below:http://www.biggerpockets.com/filesAfter that, you can tell people to look in the fileplace, or we can show you how to put a link to the fileplace area in a post (users will still have to visit the fileplace to download though).