I have had good luck withwww.ezsigns.comway cheaper than any local shop..but i agree..just google and do some shopin!!

You might have taken out a 15-year loan to get the loan paid off in half the time, and might even be making extra payments, or perhaps signed up for one of those biweekly loan programs, all to enable you to get rid of the mortgage just as quickly as possible.You do all of these things, of course, for a very basic and deep-rooted reason: because your parents taught you that you should never a have mortgage, and the key to the American Dream is to own your home outright.Yet, a Big 30-Year Mortgage Is BestAlthough your parents’ advice once made sense, today it is completely wrong.

I WONT lift a hammer until you either give me 1/2 upfront or what I have been doing lately is have the investor deposit ALL the funds into a bank account with both my name and the investors name on the account----He cant pull it with out my signature and visa-versa And honestly as far as letting the investor buy the materials -- HA -- All the average investor sees is the "pretty" side of things not the working end of things, and becides sometimes you have no idea "whats behind that wall" so 9 out of 10 times the investor dosent buy the right items, enough items or whats really needed to put the project together.I'll be more than happy to go to the Home Depot and get everything ordered, shopped, picked up and I may even deliver it ( usually have Home Depot deliver it...more money out of your pocket !)

The current owners paid cash 2 years ago and then rehabbed it themselves (to reopen a successful cafe they had run for years in another location, but one sister got married and left town, so they aren't going to reopen after all)...so they aren't losing a ton of money every month...Vacancy wouldn't really be an issue - its a one shop place, and I'm it.

Walking distance to shops?

And, if they fail, what better way to learn that they need to dust themselves off and get back in the game (that and I already took some items and sold them at the pawn shop...made back my $250 investment)!

In case anyone missed it, credit union, credit union.If the rental property is rented, the rent can be applied @75% to help Your dti ratio, but I haven't seen that help lower the down stroke.Your best bet is to shop with out credit pulls, make face to face appointments, sit in the hot seat and follow some of Jimmy Moncrief's podcast suggestions, even though they are about commercial lending, His advice is solid.John

Thanks for the info David.I went over thet tax sales in Washington DC from 2013 and I noticed three bidders they seemed to be going on a shopping spree.My guess is once they buy all the properties they just wait for the interest to kick in at 1.5% and if the owner reclaims the property they still make money on the interest and if they don't after 6 months then they start the foreclosure process.

On my latest house which I am shopping for now, I did also shop online with Best Buy and Home Depot and Best Buy ended up coming in about $200 less for the package, although they couldn't deliver for a few weeks for some reason and I need these in within the next week or so.

Definitely check out Investing in American Real Estate While Serving in the US MilitaryAlso, check this out: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate InvestingGood luck!