A great deal is a deal that makes you great profit “at the moment” regardless of what it was sold for in the past or what will be sold for in future.Flip projects are independent of the house value appreciation, even though if that happens its considered a bonus.

Good insurance guy can look up the address in about 15 seconds to see any past or current problems. and future insurability, coverage specifics and cost.Building departments can help with what the requirements are to install or demo.Good (as in, check with at least three) Pool Contractor, Installation company can help with maintenance, safety and sales costs!

We usually just sit around and have a few beers and talk about deals from the past or our intentions for the future. 

A new investor that hasn't done a deal with us or done rehabs in the past is perceived to be a higher risk than someone we have worked with in the past or knows what they are doing.  

There is a couple by the name of Jeremiah Godfrey Sr. and Rhanay Smyth Godfrey that are posing as "Pastor & First Lady" of a non-existent church called "New Life Deliverance Temple, Inc" or "New Life Ministries, Inc".

Being situated in the NW, my perception of housing has been that buying (for me) is slightly out of reach and the 50k rental homes are a thing of the past or in other markets far out of my back yard.

He works at a local church as a youth pastor.

Does anyone have past or current experience working with oversees property investments?

The church behind the house has a video and the pastor knows they guys who did it, but he refuses to give names, because he doesn't want to make waves or have it backfire on him.

ie, one of my tenants is a pastor/minister and the the church/donors pays him CASH and its apparently legal according to his congregation's legal counsel who've provided him a to-whom-it-may-concern letter citing legal statutes as such.