The trust factor has to be there and asking one of them to represent you will greatly help you relax...and they get paid.

Understanding personalities, motivating factors, likes and dislikes are as important as knowing market stats and trends.

when you make offers, just factor in the cost of using a real estate professional to sell your properties.

This is as of a report I heard on theradio earlier this morning, and it perked my ears up.

For the experts, would you factor in average rents based on Section 8 guildelines as well?

:DThere is also another factor to that argument.

If I can subdivide this even into just another lot or two theres money here, but I have no idea how to proceed to figure out whether I can or how I would do it, and I have to get back to this guy in the morning.

However you have to factor in the 40k cash back.

Another good example of a similar risk is investors bidding as owner/occupants on HUD properties, which I hear happens alot.I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet on the risk factor here for my first property and DEFINATELY get a mortgage broker to work on my next one.

The labor should be where a contractor factors in unknowns.