@Phillip Austin Rent by the room investing is an excellent strategy.

There is a reason we lenders require "skin in the game" and experience.

.: Hello, I have been seeing increasing opportunities recently to bid on non performing notes on commercial properties that banks are trying to offload.These notes usually have the following characteristics:The note has reached maturity several months ago.

Excellent insight showing just how ridiculous this “don’t need capital, just drive for dollars” nonsense is. 

They can finance the land, but not the mobile home.

Because I live in a neighborhood that has no crime but it shows up as very high crime because we had two neighbors who would call the cops over each others dogs barking so it lit it up to show it as negative…

I am pretty sold on DataFlik's stacked lists, but I wanted to run this question by all of the smart investors here at BP. 

One of the most important skills you didn't mention is networking, which you are obviously doing well at too.I'd recommend connecting 1:1 (zoom, coffee. lunch, etc.) with a couple from the BP Chicago community or better yet check out some of the local meetups: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-real-estate-events-...Make friends with the meetup hosts...they will often know whos who and can help you make the right connections.Regarding your license, I think it's a great idea if you have the time and are going at it with the right intentions. 

I just have never heard of this kind of experience and am wondering if others have run into any debacle like this. title company checks normally dont get held I know mine never do.. last year when first american got hacked I had closed a deal and had a nice size proceed wire due and it took 6 or 7 days for FATCO to get the wire out to me..

I’m Alex, I’m looking forward to learning more about real-estate, rentals, and all the things in between.