I am looking for fellow investors in my area who have gotten past the early stage of investing and would be willing to give a new investor some tips for this area of the market.

A few of my thoughts from my years of experience as a landlord and from my former work as the Accessibility Services Manager at a large medical center and advisory board member of an agency serving people with disabilities.

I am a newbee, my husband has been rehabbing properties at every stage for more then fifteen years.

Getting Cash Buyers and owner financing Buyers is not that hard.Without private lender money and joint venture money you really can't do real estateGoogle "TRUST.ETC private lender concept"Buy the book by Patrick Rice on Amazon called "iRA Wealth"Center of influence marketing works well, I hand that book  to CPAs and financial plannersYou can use that book to create a PowerPoint presentationBe careful of SEC rules on marketing a securityOne my favorite sayings is, "don't diversify your investments and Wall Street, diversify by having some money in Wall Street and some money in Main Street, do you want something crazy issue in China or the price of oil to drop your mutual funds by 20%? 

This Act has been the center of over a thousand threads I'm sure and as we (BPer's) began discussing the topic a lot of poor and bad information was put out.

The key is to have a clear exit strategy before purchasing the property, and whenever possible, to have a ready buyer waiting in the wings to whom you immediately re-sell the property.The key to doing a no-money-down deal is simple:Structure it so you do not have to take out-of-pocket cash to make it work.With the guidance of a mentor/trainer or professional advisor, you will find no-money-down deals a powerful way to acquire instant equity in properties with little or no money out of your own pocket.Here is a great example:A new real estate investor called on several “For Sale By Owner” ads in his local newspaper and internet ads.He found that one elderly couple was selling their home in order to free them to get into an elderly care center.

Even if the property can't be sold immediately during probate at least they'd know I'm interested in the property, and could either accept or decline my offer while the probate process is taking place.I intend to find the records from the court house of each probate case, I just don't know what stage of probate they'd be in once the records are released.

Hi all,I am in the final stages of prep work for the structure of my business.

As we work through the collection process and near the REO stage, we're often willing sell to the note because we don't really swing hammers.

My wife and I are at the in between stage of our careers where our salaries are going to more than double in the next 4 years.My family has been in a house for 4 years and we would be happy right now selling for break-even of the price we paid (73k).