An appraiser looks in the MLS and public records and finds a few comparable properties.

Read books, attend club meetings, speak with mentors, and work with professionals who have a proven track record!

The title company handles disbursing the money to all the right people, and recording the various documents.

This was before AL GORE invented the internet as we know it today.I mainly found records by going to Census Data and to cemetery records of my known relatives.

Based on the 50% rule, tax records, and deed records, these people WAY overpaid (apparently they expected the Texas market to do what the California market was doing).I ran the numbers, and in order for the deal to make sense to me, I'd have to buy at 50% of the asking price.

Then, have that judgment recorded against the people involved and reported to the credit agencies.

For the record, any property of 4 units or less is residential.

You could hold public events, and invite the media and different organizations that work with wounded vets, like james mentioned.

(thanks tenants)You love the smell of fresh paint.Every time you buy a car it has to have 4 wheel drive to get to those hard to see properties.Every morning is spent writing down recording #'s of the forclosure notices by hand.You know all the extentions on the attorney lines to get the sale date an opening bid of your local attorneys.When ever you meet some one you ask them how much they paid for there house.Your an a**hole to newbies just because you know more than they do and then you feel bad because you were there once.

Check the public records and see which attorneys or other have had an inordinately high number of cases, and a lot of success.Generally it'll be one who used to sit on the board of adjustment (is that the right name) or who's partner sits on it.all cash