If you are an investor and also a realtor, you are bound by laws and regulation that a non-licensed investor would not bound by.

The thing is that anyone else's contract might not be feasible in your own state that is why I use state regulated contracts just to avoid legal issues.

As it turns out, the other two quit because of the rudeness and nastiness of this one particular person in charge of parking regulations in our development.

That is how they can tell if the landlord representative did something that violated Fair Housing regulations.

In light of the potential coming regulations, thanks to Bernie Madoff, I think it will become important to ensure you have your paperwork set up properly with private lenders.I've seen a number of questions on BP about people not being entirely certain about how to set up a relationship with a private lender.

We talk a lot about free markets but in reality we are a highly regulated market with a fair amount of bureaucracy.I also agree with you about other countries being better for wealthy people in terms of their tax policies.

Owner financed properties don't have the same regulations and requirements.

I'm weary of anything that comes from a guru, so if you're using techniques taught by a guru, make sure you run any advertising you do surrounding soliciting private money through your attorney to make sure you're not violating any securities regulations.

You also need to inspect the entire building and grounds, because that all needs maintained, ALL of the hoa paperwork: Articles of incorporation, ccrs, bylaws, rules and regulations.

For any institution that is federally regulated, they can not sell a note other than to another fed regulated institution unless it is at the borrower's request/direction.