Otherwise, it's a huge waste of $ to get paid ads without having anything to show, which consequently only increases bounce rate even if it does increase page views (false positive).

In time, you may find your best deals come from properties where previous investors paid way too much and failed.PS:  It's a personal crusade of mine, but don't feel like you have to pay percentage-based fees for work that bears zero correlation with asset value.  

We are interested in all aspects of real estate investing whether it is Wholesaling, Pre-habbing, rehabbing, rent to own or buy & hold.

I include another month of holding costs in my projections to accommodate extra time needed to close on the pre-sale.  

Typically if they break the lease, they still owe rent for the remaining months of the lease agreement + they also owe to cover any damage/repairs to put the property back in its condition pre move-in.

You can ask for seller paid closing costs, but of course they will look at their Net when comparing to other bids.

I would also factor in 10% for PM (just to be safe and conservative) PMI from the FHA loan would be between .85-1% of the loan value, paid monthly until you reach 20% equity in the property and refinance the loan. 

Well to start with any one you paid over $600.00 or over in a calendar year to, you will need to send them a Misc 1099 form.

Get a loan pre-qualification letter.  

We're hoping that we can manage to get tenants to turn over in the summer, where we can spend a couple of weeks down in DC combining a little vacation in the place with fixing things up and finding a new tenant).Of course I made some mistakes already, too, but I think I'll get away with them this time...So after getting my feet wet, I've been reading about REI, and we do have cash / equity (our primary home is just about paid off) to stuff with, so now I'm considering to get into it in a non-accidental way, and it seems more prudent to look at our local area (NH seacost), but it turns out I have little idea about the purchase/rental market here, and it doesn't seem all that easy to find out (in NoVA, at least, there's a very active market, while here prices seem to fluctuate wildly for no obvious (to me) reason.