Simple answer to your question is: This type of email "drip" campaign is not enough to be considered "Procuring Cause" on its own.

Around here (Denver), vacancy rates are now about 6.2%, according to todays paper.

Id go over to craigslist and post the deal, and get that baby working in my local paper(s) too.

You earned nothing and have nothing to deduct.You might have had expenses (driving around, fees already paid and not recoverable) that can be deducted.The simple version of the rule is money actually spent on business activities might be something you can deduct.

You need to UNDERSTAND what work is involved, and when it shifts from being a simple, straightforward repair, and turns into a Project.

Again if something comes along we've got the cash to jump.BTW, if your local paper carries Scott Burns' financial column I highly recommend the one from last Sunday, August 26th.

Is the process simple, I talk with the seller, do my due dilligenceon the property, run comps, run the deal through the deal analyzer,add my wholesale fee, make sure there is enough profit on the endfor the end buyer.Is that about right?

When they could not sell new paper they could not originate.

Is it simply a piece of paper stating the seller cannot sell the property to anyone else?

Not because i "didn't apply myself" but because what they were teaching was so watered down and regurgitated from the previous years that i was deathly bored of it, and a piece of paper (diploma) simply was not worth it to me.