There are techniques to try to hide the transfer.

So this technique is not without risk and a pain in the neck if the lender wants to get creative.

You must leave enough room for the buyer or you have not got a deal.I don't know Michael's techniques (other than he is one hell of a yellow letter marketer) but it seems to me that if you could find a good deal with room in it, all you need is a buyers list to sell that deal to.

Anthoy James,Michael Quarles gives really good advice on different marketing techniques, but especially on the side of direct mail.

You may want to look into Mike Ferry dot com who teaches cold calling techniques.

So, being familiar with both of these techniques is probably your best bet.In terms of assigning a contract being illegal, the legality of assigning of contract is based on contract law, and I'd be very surprised if assigning a contract were illegal in any state.

Jeff, good job on your technique that gets you a 27%+ response rate.

Many times this could also mean that you are working in remote markets and never meeting personally with any buyers or sellers.The marketing can be both offline and online.I have not seen Duncan Wierman's course so I cannot comment on its content but I will make a comment about courses in general.Most of them will tend to bury you in so many techniques so that you can feel good knowing that you are getting a lot of "bulk".

One last point, undoubtedly technology and experience will lower fracking costs, but there are a lot of costs which will not be affected by improved technology or a concentration on winning techniques. 

There are techniques like exchanges that can allow you to defer paying these taxes forever.